Word: calm
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Dick Cheney is usually the man the Administration brings out to calm a frenzy. But last week it was the Vice President who was stirring up the fuss, with two bellicose speeches that laid out the case for war against Iraq. What was Cheney up to? With such eminent members of the G.O.P. foreign-policy establishment as former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of State James Baker and Senator Chuck Hagel all advising a go-slow approach on Iraq, the Vice President was worried that the debate was being lost. "We had to restate the case," says...
...cold war-era Geiger counters out of their green canvas bags--some still bearing the old Civil Defense logo--and shipped them off to New Jersey for recalibration. Some of the counters' handbooks are dated 1963. All that's missing is a solemn voice intoning, "Everyone, remain calm...
...will take far longer than one year of reflection about Sept. 11 for all of her discordances to clarify. But many people who meet Genelle sense only peace. "My main impression of her is really just how calm she is," says Amsale Aberra, the wedding-gown designer, who got to know Genelle while working with her on a dress for the televised ceremony. "You would never guess what she had been through." And for now, that seems to be just what Genelle Guzman-McMillan wants. The rest of it--the big answers to why she is here--may always...
...terrifying as being upstairs, where Genelle kept fretting that the building would topple. At least climbing down is a task to focus the mind. When the group entered the stairwell a few minutes earlier, everyone was relieved that it was less smoky than expected. Now they are basically calm, not really rushing...
...woes of Japan's banking sector have been painfully obvious for years. But Ishihara's public vote of no confidence served notice that, after a brief period of relative calm, the financial system of the world's second largest economy has slipped back into crisis mode. Days earlier, the government released economic growth data that indicated recovery is even farther off than expected, thanks in part to economic weakness in the U.S., a key export market. Of more immediate concern: a sharp stock market decline?fueled by plunging bank stocks?sent the Nikkei average to its lowest level...