Word: allayed
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...women receive customers in minivans parked on the access roads. In Miller's time, prostitutes were considered as French as pastry. But with criminal gangs from Eastern Europe, West Africa and Asia now funneling large numbers of girls onto French streets, the Assemblée Nationale is ready to allay voters' fears over mounting lawlessness. The loi Sarkozy, as the legislation proposed by France's high-profile Interior Minister is called, is a ragbag of internal-security measures whose targets include gypsies, beggars and gangs found loitering in hallways, as well as hookers and pimps. The brief section devoted...
...University has also sought to allay residents’ anxieties over its tax-exempt status, which could mean Allston losing millions in tax revenue...
...could simply meet with Larry Summers to discuss the merits of divestment, I believe we could allay his concerns,” he said...
...Monetary Fund loan package have to be hammered out, and a decision made on whether to back an unpopular U.S.-led war on Iraq. Erdogan's first act as Turkey's non-Prime Minister will be to tour Europe, starting with an old enemy, Greece. He is hoping to allay fears about an Islamist threat. And then he must convince doubters at home...
...Israeli army's occupation of the West Bank, and a tacit assurance that Israel will not retaliate against Iraq should Saddam Hussein, faced with imminent military defeat, lob Scuds into Israeli cities - as he did 39 times during the Gulf War. In so doing, the U.S. hopes to allay the prewar jitters of Arab leaders, who fear that an Israeli attack on Iraq could inflame their own populations, destabilize their regimes and perhaps draw them into a wider...