Word: calmer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their calmer moments, those involved insist that no such grim scenario will ever come to pass, that the unthinkable will not be allowed to happen, that the debt bomb cannot explode. But it is a fact that for the past 21 months, particularly through a nerve-racking autumn and winter, the bomb's fuse has been sputtering, forcing almost overnight major changes in international lending. Ever since March 1981, when Poland, with a debt of $27 billion, declared that it simply did not have the $2.5 billion due its creditors that year, the danger signals have been flying. Last...
...Lorean's astonishment, Benedict and Vicenza abruptly broke the light mood by announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...
Begin was calmer than Sadat. He said he had already demonstrated his good will by changing a longstanding policy of his government concerning the Sinai land
...Most of these places are famous in American folklore and in grim modern history. Their names evoke images of riots in the yards, of searchlights and sirens, of tin cups banged in unison on the tables of gothic mess halls. The normal reality of prison life is, of course, calmer, but no less extraordinary. These are societies made up largely of people who have robbed, attacked and murdered other people, after all, and of those who oversee them. No world they compose could be anything but bizarre...
...that beta blockers have uses beyond their current applications. Good results have been reported in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychological disorders. A West German study shows that beta blockers can change Type A behavior, a pattern of aggressiveness linked to a higher risk of heart attack, into calmer Type B behavior...