Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This drug makes you lose everything," she says, gulping a shot of bourbon and root-beer schnapps to calm her freaking neurotransmitters. "I'm not afraid, though. I've cranked for seven years," Jennifer says. (Her name has been changed by TIME, as have the names and various identifying details of other crank users cited.) "I'm getting pretty used to losing everything...
...diet wasn't all so wholesome, though. "Also, I was smoking tons of pot just to calm my nerves...
Taboo subjects besides Lewinsky: anything that comes under the old culture-wars rubric. Sexual harassment? Leave it alone. Gays in the military? Don't. Gay marriage? Ditto. Lesbian couples adopting children? Smile with an enigmatic calm and say, "Mmmmmmmmmmm...
...dragged on with no word from the airport and I spent two nights shivering in borrowed shorts and tee-shirt, my calm demeanor soon deteriorated. The baggage office answered only every third time I called, and the noise in the background at De Gaulle sounded like a World War II resistance fight led by Charles himself. However, the most upsetting part of the whole experience was the cavalier and almost hostile attitude of the flight attendants, personnel and those whose job it was to help me. They seemed to be saying: How presumptuous of you to expect that, in addition...
...care about are the ones in their basement. But there are circuit breakers on Wall Street too, and they've been updated to handle more juice--just in time, apparently, given the electrifying volatility we saw last week. The new breakers are intended to give investors ample time to calm down and think when the market slides 10% or more in a day. But don't wait until that day to consider what you'll do. Take the hint: exchange officials have overhauled their crash plan; so should...