Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing outside Leverett House. It's pretty calm, unless you count the 400 students slamming their bodies against the gate screaming "Party! Let us in! Party...
Faigen attributed the 88-point rally to various factors, which "worked together to calm fears and reassure investors that things would not get out of control...
...statement. The Dalai Lama, attending a spiritual conference in Newport Beach, Calif., responded to the fuss with characteristic humility. "My case is nothing special," he said. "I am a simple Buddhist monk -- no more, no less." Authorities in Beijing, who have been struggling to convey an image of national calm and restored normality, only wish that were true...
...through a combination of cautious diplomacy on Gorbachev's part and careful crowd control by his hosts, the two-day visit went off without any major embarrassments. Arriving at Schonefeld Airport on Friday, the Soviet leader was greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Gorbi! Gorbi!" but the reception remained calm. About 3,000 people gathered the next day in Alexanderplatz to demand government reform, the biggest such demonstration in East Berlin since 1953, but again the police managed to control the crowd. Officials were less successful in keeping the lid on demonstrations outside the capital: in Dresden and Leipzig violent clashes...
...predictable as the grumbling from Detroit was the calm reaction in Japan, whose share of the U.S. market has climbed from 15% in 1979 to 25% today. "It's not that tough technologically, but we'll need some lead time," said a Japanese auto-company official. He added that the new standards would raise sticker prices "only marginally" because Japanese firms typically rely on thinner profit margins than their U.S. counterparts...