Word: calming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Calm Before the Storm...
...anywhere. He is as engaged as anyone else at the company. After 8 on most nights, after even the diehards have cleared out of the office, Grove's cubicle still glows against the window. Rock, who has known Grove for 30 years, puts the persistent passion down to a calm inner knowledge. "Andy has been exactly the same person. He hasn't changed. That's the beauty of it. He has no airs." That Grove could remain still in the midst of such a turbulent business is perhaps the best explanation of his success. Other companies chased fads or indulged...
...number of Americans that a saucer did indeed crash in the desert near Roswell in 1947 that the Army Air Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, issued an explanation at the time that the vehicle in question had been a weather balloon. This past June, to keep the public calm, the Army published reassuring photos in the papers...
...Dalai Lama's very refusal to be dictatorial and his calm assurance that Tibetan Buddhist centers, unlike their Roman Catholic counterparts, "have no central authority" and are "all quite independent" have left him somewhat powerless as all kinds of questionable things are done in the name of his philosophy (a prominent lama was slapped with a $10 million sexual-harassment suit in California). And his wish to make peace among the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism has so infuriated a few that earlier this year three members of his inner circle were found murdered in their beds, apparently...
...feeling in the region is they?d prefer to see things calm down despite Iraq possessing biological weapons, rather than allow those weapons to become the reason for further conflict,? says Dowell. Which means the outcome of the present standoff may be even more inconclusive than the resolution of the Gulf War itself...