Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home. One interpretation holds that the Soviets simply had finished training the Syrians to operate the batteries. The worst-case scenario: the Syrians were preparing to go to war and the Soviets did not want to get caught in the middle. Observed an Israeli intelligence official: "Somehow we were calmer when we knew the Soviets were keeping their fingers on the triggers...
...themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless, cut off from those who lead richer, happier or just plain calmer lives...
...budget deficit. Until recently, Ireland's exploration for oil has concentrated on Porcupine Basin, a storm-whipped area of the Atlantic 130 miles west of Galway Bay. The poor drilling conditions and evidence of only small deposits in that basin prompted a shift of attention to the shallower, calmer Celtic Sea. The discovery of a field there entails one other bit of Irish luck. The well lies not far offshore from a refinery that is currently used to process imported crude...
...since the Civil War, Socialists are in power, having trounced a collapsing center and a regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal elections, to the delight of Prime Minister Felipe González, who likes to say that "Spain is calm, calmer than at any time since the death of General Franco." The political honeymoon still lasts, and when the boyish 41-year-old Socialist leader flies to Washington next week on his first official visit to the U.S., he will inevitably reflect the buoyant national mood. For Spaniards, Gonz...
Type A has been accepted as a bona fide risk factor for heart disease by the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Studies have shown that Type A's respond differently to stress than do calmer people classified as Type B's. When Dr. Redford Williams at Duke University asked a group of male undergraduates to perform a mental arithmetic task (serial subtraction of 13 from 7,683), the Type A students produced 40 times as much cortisol and four times as much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood...