Word: calm
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...spoken. Says John Sexton, the president of New York University, who previously chaired the committee that picked Geithner for the New York Fed job: "I've been in conversations with Tim on critically important and time-sensitive issues, crises, and I've been struck by his ability to stay calm...
...After the bruising it took from Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, the uniformed military also appears keen to retain the incumbent. At the highest levels, officials praise Gates' calm demeanor and interest in their opinions. "He still comes to the tank every week to hear them out," a Pentagon official says of Gates' regular meeting in the Joint Chiefs' secure conference room...
...became morbidly afraid of buildings after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake or the poisonous red ants which descended on a Caribbean town during a 1902 volcanic eruption. More worrisome is the realization that mankind's existence is, according to the laws of probability, fleeting. Writes de Villiers: "The period of calm in which the human species was formed is only a brief drawing of the breath before the cosmic assault begins once more." So how do we maximize our time in what de Villiers calls a "perilously thin habitable layer on a vulnerable and unstable planet in a hostile neighborhood"? Plan...
Another roommate, Mike E. Driscoll ’98, described Silverman as a calm person with a head for numbers. He said that because of those qualities, he was not entirely surprised when Silverman took the job in Tampa...
...Saturday night, they don’t have regrets either, regardless of the rain. A few minutes after 7 p.m., the audience has settled down, and the lights have been turned off. With everyone sitting, the mud ceases to become an issue, and even the weather seems to calm just in time. The work that the directors, designers, and models have put in is about to pay off. Suddenly the music starts up, and the room erupts with applause and cheers. The first model struts down the runway...