Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like sunshine after a storm, a mood of calm confidence is brightening the stock market as it moves into the new year. Buoyed by cheering economic prospects, investors have pushed stock prices steadily upward for seven weeks...
...dollar's devaluation, one might have said with Caesar: "The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack." In fact, the devaluation took place in relative calm; most inside the U.S. and abroad hailed it as a realistic first step toward a long overdue reorganization of a world monetary system that had not been overhauled since the Bretton Woods conference...
...suburban Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Troppi, already the parents of seven, became apprehensive about the possibility of another pregnancy. Mrs. Troppi obtained a prescription for Norinyl, Syntex Laboratories' contraceptive pill, and her nervousness vanished. But her calm mood, she claimed, was the result of her druggist's mistake: he had given her Nardil, a tranquilizer, and Mrs. Troppi later gave birth to a son. If the Troppis can prove negligence, a Michigan court of appeals ruled, a lower court can then order the druggist to pay damages. In computing the amount, the appeals bench said...
...when calm had returned, nearly 150 youths were in jail and close to 100 had been treated for injuries. The government's strong reaction served -perhaps intentionally-to exaggerate the extent of the disorders. Two opposition radio stations were shut down for "tendentious and alarming" reporting of the rioting. Toward dawn, Allende decreed a state of emergency, placing under army control the entire province of Santiago, which encompasses more than a third of Chile's 9,000,0.00 people. General Augusto Pinochet, the local garrison commander, imposed press censorship and a 1 a.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew...
When Dr. Calvin Hastings Plimpton served as president of Amherst College, he brought a healer's touch to the liberal arts school in more ways than one. He used a calm, fatherly approach to the academic and financial problems that confront all college presidents, and when medical needs arose, he would pick up his black bag and make house calls around town. Now, as president of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Plimpton still makes house calls of a kind. Since his arrival in August, he has dropped in on faculty members...