Word: calmer
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...with the CEO, Seegal went to Jennifer Lopez's clothing company, Sweetface Fashion; she boosted sales to about $250 million last year by expanding licensing deals to such categories as jewelry and shoes. Now Seegal must steer Nautica, which has struggled with weak sales and an inconsistent image, to calmer seas...
...Harvard senior sat in the empty Herrell’s savoring the peace and quiet of the calmer ice cream environment. She complained of the long lines, but said that her primary reason for skipping out on the free cone was a matter of taste...
...event that felt like a turning point for me in terms of my poetry. The piece incorporated singing, narrative, Hebrew, Ewe (one of the major languages spoken in Ghana), and English. I had been missing Ghana, where I lived for part of last year, and I felt so much calmer once I figured out how to express my feelings...
Crowe's life is now significantly calmer. In the study of his vast apartment, where we lunch on calamari and ginger beer, there is a picture of Danielle Spencer, the Australian singer and actress he married this past April. Spencer is pregnant with Crowe's first child, a son, due in January. I ask if domesticity has calmed him, and he raises a hand: Eat, then interview. When lunch is over, he says, "I'm sure regardless of my marriage and impending fatherhood, certain things shift just because of age." One of those things is that he no longer goes...
...theta brain waves--the ones that appear right before sleep--without slipping into the brain-wave pattern of actual sleep. In his 1970s best seller, The Relaxation Response, Benson, who founded the Mind/Body Medical Institute, argued that meditators counteracted the stress-induced fight-or-flight response and achieved a calmer, happier state. "All I've done," says Benson, "is put a biological explanation on techniques that people have been utilizing for thousands of years...