Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a highly civilized world, it may be difficult to accept that force, and not solely diplomacy, is still needed to calm troubled waters. But those who hold power will always cling to it; those who do not will always seek it. When have economic sanctions or pointed dialogue ever forced a dictator, sipping off the cream of his nation's output, to beg for mercy? Once the U.S. ascertains the willingness of Haitians--and Bosnians--to cooperate with outside parties, there should be no hesitation to use force...
...style of an organic-chemistry professor. "I try not to be a rabble rouser," he says. "The people want things explained to them clearly and rationally. They recognize when someone is speaking to them seriously. They want to see how you handle difficult situations, whether or not you stay calm...
Some graduates, however, say the small ranks ofprotesters and the relative calm on campus todaymake current protesters the real crusaders...
Greenspan will continue to have more influence over interest rates than anyone else, at least until his term expires in March 1996. For now, Fed watchers expect the board to avoid any more rate increases until May at the earliest, to give the jittery markets a chance to calm down. The former jazz player who chairs the Fed hardly wants to provoke investors into another round of blowing their cool...
...signaled a relaxation into informality at the end of a meal or the start of a baseball game, before drinks or after sex. Even for the solitary steam fitter or housewife, the act of sending a geyser from mouth to ceiling could envelop the user in a penumbra of calm thoughtfulness. It was an empyrean for daydreams -- the cloud of smoke our thoughts went...