Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fallows is coasting through the final days of the campaign now. Only a couple of major issues speeches remain, and the speechwriter is only a shadowy presence on the road, more quiet and less stern than most of the Carter staffers. His calm demeanor is a striking contrast to his unsettling memories of the past, of a turbulent war against a war that so forcefully shaped his world outlook. And his politics have mellowed similarly. He has shelved an impressive career in journalism to labor for a candidate whose prospective administration is--like any challenger's--full of question marks...
...stories focuses on some young, beautiful person who is convinced of the importance of his destiny. Just as the unassuming Brix Grill in Paris, which Scott describes at the opening of one of the stories, is "one of those places where things happen," the protagonists face life with the calm assurance of starring in their own drama. And with "the sharp, instantaneous transitions of scenes in the movies," the authors shoot them through a whirlwind of parties and wars and fallings in and out of love, before finding some neat way to bring about the happy, hoped-for, expected ending...
...stunt fall by a woman (105 ft.) and is considered among the best of the 40 stunt women in Hollywood. Says Loren Janes, a Hollywood stunt coordinator for 23 years: "She has developed in six months to a point that usually requires two to three years. She is very calm, cool and collected under pressure." Crashing through barriers in more ways than...
...labor costs by 10% per year at most -and that much only in the unlikely instance that there is no productivity gain. A 10% jump would not be excessively steep, compared with other 1976 contract settlements. In a year that began with experts' predictions of relative calm on the labor front, several major strikes have ended with bonanzas for workers: the Teamsters won a flat 34% wage-and-benefits increase over three years, while the rubber workers got nearly 40%. The Ford strike-which had negligible impact on the economy-could have turned out a lot worse than...
...line and the white kids arriving on foot in another, and I'll tell you if there had been one rock thrown or one racial slur escaped, we would have seen a fight they'd never stop talking about. But they stood silent, and it was calm, and the kids did it," Winegar says...