Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help calm the left, Tanin has granted bail to 2,600 of the 3,000 students arrested at Thammasat. He has also restrained the gung-ho anti-Communist sweeps by the army and police, especially in the capital, and has released all but 200 of the 1,000-odd suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios...
...federal law-enforcement authorities are prepared for the possibility of a bloody internal struggle within the coming months. With the two top Mafia jobs open-the national leader, and the head of the five New York families-the three personalities vying for them, and the "greenies" alerted, the calm displayed in the motel basement is unlikely to continue...
...trouble is that she is visually wrong for the part, far too stocky and imposing; more important, she never quite manages to summon up the vitality both men are continually extolling. She's at her best in the last scene, when the script calls for a quiet, calm delivery of her lines...
...pointed down, down, down -down on Ford's chances of staying in the White House, down on Carter's populist economics, and down, or at least doubtful, on the strength of the nation's economic recovery. As the election approached and investors caught the jitters, the calm but healthy bull market that developed with the onset of recovery last year seemed to have been taken over by the bears. In five days of busy trading last week, the 30 stocks of the Dow Jones industrial average, still the most widely watched Wall Street barometer, plunged 15 points...
...announcements. Next April, he said, he himself would give up his post as CBS's chief executive officer, though he would remain as chairman. To fill Taylor's job, he named John D. Backe, 44, the president of CBS's publishing division. Then, as if to calm ruffled nerves, came a flood of impressive figures. CBS's third-quarter profits rose to a record $40.8 million on sales of $525 million. That was a big jump from the same period last year, when the company earned $29.1 million on revenues of $461 million, and clearly pointed...