Word: calmed
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...another conflict: America's proxy war with Iran. Since Iran is the other big foreign power with influence in Baghdad, the U.S. needs its help to prevent Iraq from sliding back into anarchy as we withdraw. A better relationship with Iran might also make it easier to achieve calm--if not peace--between Israel and its two nonstate foes Hizballah and Hamas, since Tehran arms and bankrolls both terrorist groups...
...subway car. The overriding sound track is silence. After the Hudson crash, TV reporters badgered passengers, incredulous that there had not been shoving and hysteria. But if we asked all the survivors of all history's mishaps, we would hear the same patient reply: No, people were pretty calm, actually. Which is not to say they weren't terrified...
...walked around Washington the day before the Inauguration, and the spirit in the city felt like a calm celebration of democracy--people walking around their capital, celebrating their President, marking their victory. But it did not feel like a victory of party or partisanship so much as a celebration of the simplest and yet most transcendent act of citizenship--going into a voting both and pulling a lever and honoring the result...
...Putting the Democrats on Notice Democrats on Capitol Hill played Obama's unexpectedly generous business-oriented tax cuts to their advantage by swiftly demanding greater spending for their priorities. Whatever concessions Obama made in response - there were frantic closed-door meetings to calm the Democrats down - he was probably going to have to swallow in the form of more spending anyway. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was not inclined to permit Democrats in Congress to look for ways to prosecute outgoing Bush officials over their conduct on the war or their authorization of torture. And Obama, in contrast to House...
...managed to bring some or all of their passengers to safety. "Any ditching is very dangerous, with the possibility of the airplane cartwheeling, flipping, or otherwise breaking apart," Smith told TIME. "But if you had to ditch, I can't think of a more opportune location: a relatively calm river adjacent to a large city with rescue equipment only moments away...