Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drops on bad news because bad news means uncertainty about the future-and uncertainty raises the investor's fears and deprives him of a sound basis for making decisions. Usually it is the small investors who give in to instinct and drive the market down, though the normally calm professionals had a major part in the sell-off after Kennedy's assassination. Last week Wall Street blamed the public for selling again on bad news, but the public also deserved some credit for being a lot more sensible than usual in its appraisal of the situation...
Sometimes White House newsmen got annoyed with Pierre's ways, thought he was considerably less than fastidious with facts. But by and large they came to admire him as a real pro, one who was calm, cool and correct in moments of real emergency, such as the Cuba missile crisis...
With an organizational core of about ten students, the group received official recognition from Dean Monro and the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs and proceeded to "aid in the election of Lyndon B. Johnson, a calm, moderate, experienced administrator...
...problem of Republican defection," and he had high hopes of success. Said he: "Johnson's support is very broad but very thin. Goldwater's support is narrower but deeper." But he recognized that Barry's political image needs polishing. "Goldwater must be depicted as a reasonable, calm man, and not as someone who has a bunch of nuts around him," said Nixon. "Senator Goldwater is a reasonable, calm...
Much of the early editorial vehemence is now gone, perhaps out of a self-conscious attempt to achieve balance. But the editorial cartoonists show no enthusiasm for calm assessment. Goldwater has always been an enticing target and the cartoonists continue to slash away. The candidates themselves may have found few issues to debate, but to the artists of the editorial page the campaign has been a long excuse for caustic, black-and-white comment -a gallery of caricature in which the Republicans almost always come out second best (see cuts...