Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hoping to calm them, White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles early last week called and apologized to both Gephardt and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle for failing to consult them on either the Medicare plan or the President's choice of Colorado Governor Roy Romer as the new party chairman. Bowles promised he would meet with them regularly from now on. But no amount of cajoling from the White House will keep Gephardt from laying more groundwork for a presidential run. Just days before the AFL-CIO conference, he plans to cross the border into Mexico to highlight...
...Princeton on Sunday...so we wanted to beat Penn with really high intensity," said sophomore Lindsey Wilbur, the number-three player on the team. "It was a really good match for us to warm up at so we got some of our jitters out, and Sunday we were more calm...
...intimate genre for solo voice and piano, does not always survive orchestration. The two songs that Brahms transcribed, "Memnon" and "An Schwager Kronos," not surprisingly, were very successful. But Kurt Gillman's "Du Bist Die Ruh" and Felix Mottl's "Standchen" invited exuberance and high volume where restraint and calm would have better served the lilting melodies...
...hands on. Celebrity sightings at clinics and youth shelters are, for the most part, rare. "We try to provide children with a calm, soothing place, not chaotic, star-studded events," says Leslie Johnson of the Westside Children's Center in Culver City, California. "Besides, children under three have different ideas about celebrity. When Barney came to our Christmas party, Jim Carrey could have been standing there and no one would have noticed...
Memorial Church is a Harvard church in the sense that it serves Harvard students, faculty and staff. We might ask it to accommodate itself to the Harvard community for the sake of peace, a general calm in the community, but we cannot and should not ask it to waver in its commitment to principle. Not only will such accommodation weaken the church, it will weaken the moral force of its pronouncements...