Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polite man in person, he seems stiff and tense on camera. Even his attempts at spontaneity and good humor look programmed. One week he tried ending his broadcast with the sign-off "Courage"; widespread derision forced him to drop it after three nights. Walter Cronkite, Rather's predecessor, was calm and reassuring, an avuncular figure to the nation. Rather seems tightly coiled and uneasy, an eccentric cousin capable of almost anything...
...oddly anticlimactic, with none of the passion that has left such deep scars. After seven years of bloody combat, the Sandinistas and the contras sat down at a table in San Jose's Central Seminary last week and for the first time talked directly to each other. Despite the calm voices, however, the two sides laid down two very detailed -- and very different -- proposals...
...deter them from attacking us anymore." Until a renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank and Gaza at week's end that, according to Arab sources, left 15 injured by live ammunition as well as rubber bullets, the policy had brought a measure of uneasy calm to the occupied territories. Rabin might well argue that broken bones are preferable to the 38 deaths that occurred before he announced he was replacing bullets with beatings. But the change in policy has further tarnished Israel's image abroad...
...Gaza and the West Bank, was extended Friday evening to a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusaleum, the first time such a measure had been used there since Israel seized the sector in 1967. The restriction imposed an uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered most Arab shops in Gaza, East...
...fuel to the controversy that has engulfed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ever since Li shut it down for four days during the global financial crash last October. At a stormy news ! conference held when trading resumed, the contentious Li argued that he had given investors a chance to calm down. But his action had the opposite effect: it created a pent-up pressure to sell. After the exchange reopened, the Hang Seng stock index plunged by 33% in a single...