Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ahead, the White House also hopes to calm the constant personnel turmoil that has marked Burford's tenure. Since she arrived 20 months ago, six people have been nominated to fill the two associate-administrator spots directly under her. Three have resigned or were fired, and one withdrew his name from further consideration amid allegations of conflict of interest. Two of the six assistant administrators' posts remained vacant for more than a year after Reagan took office, and one remained without a permanent appointee until last week. By week's end it was disclosed that Reagan...
That critique will scarcely calm angry minorities and women. "We knew darn well they weren't going to be appointing Hispanics in this Administration," says Arnold Torres, executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Torres adds that his organization no longer bothers to lobby the White House on judicial choices. His anguish is shared by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gladys Kessler, head of the National Association of Women Judges. "The record is dismal," says Kessler. "We have some grave concerns about whether this Administration is really looking for women candidates." She also charges that...
Ultimately, though, the greatest inspiration in this volume comes from Sakharov's own calm yet stubborn determination in the face of the repression he has struggled against for so long. The unique status of the physicist in international nuclear relations brought Sakharov into the political arena: but it has been his own dedication and hunger to see justice Jone that have made him an icon of the human rights cause...
...hero, Hirsch plays Al Manetti, a New York City detective who is in charge of the Selky investigation. Hirsch thoroughly develops a fallible character who must balance his intuitive belief that the search is hopeless with his sympathetic determination to help Susan find her son. Playing off Nelligan's calm exterior Hirsch gradually gains a deep respect and affection for her courageous struggle to keep her son's image alive...
...concrete level, the plot introduces Mauro Ponticelli (Michael Piccoli), and his sister Marta (Anouk Aimee). The former is a magistrate, the latter a lunatic. At first the separation is quite clear. Save for the disturbances created by his sister. Ponticelli is almost fanatically calm, all that a middle-aged magistrate should be. Aimee's Marta, by contrast, seems in each well-groomed motion to bristle with exposed nerve-endings...