Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White House correspondent James Carney reports that the Clinton Administration will stage a number of public events in the coming weeks to try to calm the fears of the majority of Americans polls say still oppose sending in U.S troops. "The polls aren't moving much, but the White House didn't expect them to," Carney says. "This is much like Haiti: they're trying to reassure people that the troops are in good hands." At today's event, the President delivered a speech before organizations providing humanitarian relief to Bosnians. Flanked by three Bosnian refugee families, the President made...
...from two interest-bearing retirement funds into accounts that earn no interest. Then he extended ious guaranteeing federal workers that the principal and the lost interest would be repaid. Conveniently, those ious don't count against the $4.9 trillion debt limit. Through all of this, Wall Street remained remarkably calm. Despite some rumblings that Rubin's action might not be legal, bonds rallied and the Dow Jones industrials sailed further into record territory, on Friday nearing the 5000 mark...
...motive of the alleged assassin is generally agreed to have been disruption of the continuing peace process in Israel. In removing the man who solidified the negotiations with calm resolve, that process has undoubtedly been set back somewhat. But the minds of the vast majority of Israeli Jews who support the peace process cannot have changed; in fact, this tragedy will likely convince more Jews of the necessity of non-violent compromise...
...there is trouble in this seeming paradise. Beneath the calm surface, tensions are seething among scientists, fishermen, tour operators, smugglers and politicians. The hostilities threaten not only to disrupt the peaceful pace of Galapagos life but, far worse, to upset the fragile environmental balance in one of the world's most cherished ecological reserves...
...longest, and mysteriously, the best of the pieces is also the least self consciously bizarre, "Brouhaha," directed by lay Beckman tells the everyday, black and white story of couple who throw a party which Satan crashes. When things get bad, as we knew they would, the host stays calm and retreats to his somehow ghoulishly tiled bathroom There he calmly administers a progressively more severe regimen of beer (the devil kicked the keg), whisky, pills, heroin and cocine. The restraint of clever shot angles of the 23 minute film make up for the terrible dubbing and college dorm feel...