Word: calmed
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...Stay Calm, Says God All four interviewees said the very act of prayer (appropriately) transfers some anxiety onto the divinity. "The prayer itself is a form of power," says Ali. "We are not frustrated or losing our temper or losing our dignity or feeling lost, because we are close to God." Philip Yancey, the author of numerous Evangelical Christian books, including most recently Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?, cites Psalm 46, a prayer listing a number of catastrophes but concluding, "Be still and know that I am God." Addressing God, Yancey says, allows us to "bring our fears...
...considering the economic crisis, Nevins suggets that the very equanimity achieved through prayer may actually help solve the concrete problem. He says that prayer-induced calm could affect the economic spiral in a way similar to the case of a serious illness in which a miracle cure may not be in the offing, but "doctors have observed that people who have hope are able to have a better quality of life and better outcome in their healing." Says Nevins: "If people stampede and panic and liquidate their assets, then we'll all be in worse shape. So maintaining some perspective...
Markets in Asia and Europe reacted with hope - or at the very least with calm - to moves made on both sides of the Atlantic over the weekend to convince traders to suspend the Great Stock Dump-a-Thon that eviscerated indices for most of the previous week. After Asian markets progressed with modest gains Monday, trading in Europe opened with similar advances, with France's CAC 40 and London's FTSE surging nearly 6% after the morning's opening...
...President José Manuel Barroso, for example, stressed the collective package "isn't of an immediate miracle", and many more trials and jittery nerves would have to be overcome before the nightmare of the past months would be over. Still, the mere framework of a strategy proved sufficient to calm the fear that that drove last week's panic-driven sell...
...situation in a way guaranteed to make it far worse," says Marc Touati, deputy executive manager of the French economic- and finance-research group Global Equities. "We once had 'irrational exuberance' pushing markets ever higher; now we have irrational pessimism running them into the ground. People have to calm down, or we're in for big trouble...