Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their outward calm, the Chinese are as anxious as the rest of the world about their future. Jiang Zemin, State President, head of the party, chief of the military committee, the "core" of the new collective leadership, was ordained by Deng eight years ago and has been running the government pretty much ever since. But history has never been kind to China in its moments of transition from one ruler to the next. And though there is confidence that these new leaders are firmly set upon the path of reform, there is equal doubt that they have the courage, stamina...
...same time when all armed rebels were ordered to surrender their weapons. At least 14 people have been killed and an estimated 150 injured since protests turned violent Feb. 28. Berisha's announcement Saturday that Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi and his Cabinet would resign failed to calm the public fury. On Sunday, state television showed angry protesters looting an army arsenal in southern Albania and walking away with weapons. Outside Vlora, crowds broke into and ransacked President Berisha's summer home. Berisha is blaming the violence on his political rivals, including the socialists, the successors to the communists who controlled...
...surprised me that, in a room so laced with distraction, a room reverberating with lusty Italian music, one student remained completely calm and collected...
...soon snowballed into a public protest against Mao and the Gang of Four, triggering a tough government crackdown. Thirteen years later, Deng ordered a far more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square was surprisingly calm and accessible to the public, reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz: "At dusk on Thursday, Tiananmen looked serene. The national flag was at half-mast, but everything else looked business as usual. People walked on the square, some taking pictures of each other. Nearer the Monument to the People...
Madhavan said that during the competition, "we stay relatively calm [and] don't get too spastic...