Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mexican stock market remains calm...
Meanwhile, Leach, deprived by the autocratic Gonzalez of one forum, avidly seized another. In a speech on the House floor on Thursday afternoon, he pursued two lines of accusations, delivered in a theatrical combination of harsh language and calm tone. One line was to portray Whitewater as a kind of sweetheart deal -- one to which "the Governor-in-the-making provided his name" while "the S&L owner ((McDougal)) and affiliated entities provided virtually all, perhaps all, the money." The company "may have begun as a legitimate real estate venture," Leach intoned, "but it came to be used to skim...
...Gerry Adams specialty. Whenever Irish Republican Army bombs dismember innocent victims, it is Adams, president of the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, who sits down before the microphones and attempts to transform atrocities into regrettable but necessary collateral damage in a just war against British oppression. The calm, reasonable, well- spoken Adams is good...
...source of healing power. Shamans and practitioners of traditional medicine, especially the Chinese, value almost every part of the cat. They believe that tiger-bone potions cure rheumatism and enhance longevity. Whiskers are thought to contain potent poisons or provide strength; pills made from the eyes purportedly calm convulsions. Affluent Taiwanese with flagging libidos pay as much as $320 for a bowl of tiger-penis soup, thinking the soup will make them like tigers, which can copulate several times an hour when females are in heat...
There are 23 minutes remaining before her Today show appearance, and Zlata Filipovic, the 13-year-old chronicler of war-torn Sarajevo, is snacking on cantaloupe, perusing a Harper's Bazaar and affecting an impressive calm. Impressive because she is surrounded by more chain-smoking attendants than even the Texan rock-star aspirant seated across the green room. While there is no faux blond manager in black crochet at the young Bosnian girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata...