Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special royal commission, appointed last week by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, may help calm the conflict and get the strikers back to work. But it is not likely to produce a quick cure for the problems now plaguing NHS. Only a comprehensive course of financial and administrative therapy is likely to do that, and such a treatment cannot even begin until the government and its opponents agree on a diagnosis of the problem...
...Relative calm returned to Lebanon at week's end, but violence remains just below the surface. The extreme left feels that the Phalange has not been "punished" enough. Many right-wing Christians are opposed to any reforms granting the Moslem majority of Lebanon political or economic equality until security has been re-established and the Palestinian refugee camps in the country (estimated pop. 101,000) are brought under government control. That is an all but impossible dream because the camps are totally run by the fedayeen...
...Federal Reserve Board cut bank reserve requirements, in effect allowing banks to increase their loans to consumers and businessmen by about $2 billion. The action will help calm money markets that had been nervous about the W.T. Grant Co. bankruptcy and the continuing financial woes of New York City. It is also an unmistakable sign that the board is easing its recent tightfisted monetary policy, and will let the nation's money supply grow enough at least to hit its own announced target of 5% to 7½ a year. That, in turn, should ease fears that high interest...
...lendable money into the nation's banking system, inscrutable Chairman Arthur Burns rumbled: "I couldn't answer that-I'm a central banker." But evidence of a slight loosening of Federal Reserve policy had already surfaced. Little more than a week ago, in an effort to calm jitters in the credit markets caused by the bankruptcy petition of W.T. Grant Co. (TIME, Oct. 13) and New York City's continuing financial crisis, the board pumped about $800 million into the banking system by buying federal securities. The proceeds were deposited in banks and had the effect...
Some women report success in engaging the rapist in calm conversation...