Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unapologetically more imitator than innovator. Bryant did not outthink his opponents, he outworked them. "I'm just a plow hand from Arkansas," he would say. "But I've learned over the years how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat, together, a team...
Yearning for Calm and Stability Mubarak is not, and does not want to be, another Sadat...
...Kronberg, the Group of Five ministers accepted Regan's general proposition that potential reforms of the monetary system should be studied, but they focused their attention on more immediate steps to calm jittery financial markets. In particular, the ministers agreed that the major industrial nations should greatly increase their contributions to the International Monetary Fund, which makes loans to countries having balance of payments difficulties. Until more fundamental solutions can be found for the mounting debt distress of developing nations, increased IMF lending will apparently have to serve as a stopgap...
...Most of these men are combat veterans who fled to the Bekaa Valley after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the bombing of West Beirut. Yet the war seems strangely irrelevant to their thinking. "First we will drive the enemy from Lebanon," declares a 20-year-old in a calm voice, "and then we will liberate Palestine...
From the first scenes 48 Hours proves technically superb the suspenseful music and the artistic photography of the serene landscape around a chain gang skillfully sets up a calm before-the-storm feeling. When the storm breaks, it is furious and violent, raging up from the streets around Nolte the cop. The camera often returns to the streets, recording the roar of the traffic from the level of the cars, as if refueling for the coming scenes...