Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clark's provides the prefect background for a pleasant night--or even for an unpleasant one. this is due to the atmosphere of calm indifference, where even an altercation will garner little attention, except perhaps from the very attentive waitstaff. The clientele here seems to understand the positive relationship between drinking and waiting for trains. Patrons are not interested in forming life-long acquaintances--or even a one-night acquaintance...
WASHINGTON: Kenneth Starr's grand jury takes the day off Wednesday -- a sensible rest to take between two days of marathon testimony from Vernon Jordan. The legendary Washington lawyer and Clinton confidant gave exactly the kind of performance you'd expect Tuesday: cool, calm and collected. Jordan told reporters he had answered the grand jury's questions "truthfully, completely and to the best of my ability" -- just as he said he would way back on the second day of the Lewinsky scandal...
...real town meeting the balance tends to tip toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them...
Contrary to popular belief, the pre-med students interviewed for this article regard their future with calm and reason...
...ties with Russia are turning very sour. Cohen, in Moscow last week to try to calm things down, was greeted by an angry Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, who denounced U.S. policy to Cohen's face and in front of a group of reporters. Sergeyev told Cohen that America's "rigid and uncompromising" position could lead to instability and unforeseen consequences. Cohen replied that the "so-called compromises" Russia has proposed do nothing to solve the problem of Saddam. Cohen went on to ask about reports, first published by the Washington Post, that Russia had offered to sell Iraq machinery that...