Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refuse to be calm and rational," said ZIPorganizer Aya de Leon '88-'89. She said that thegroup provides a fun and useful way to vent angerat the clubs' positions...
Thompson also says he has worked with Graham since 1970, when they cooperated in an effort to calm the race rioting in April through June and September through November of that year. He also worked with her from 1970 to 1982 as assistant to the city manager for community relations, he said...
...That I'm slow to anger. After ten years of being a chief executive, I've developed a certain inner calm and steadiness about me. It's not a bad resource, by the way, to have as President. If you get angry every day, you're going to be a real risk. I think it's an asset to be steady and a unifier. Incidentally, that quality stood me in good stead in the primaries...
...Point Barrow rescue attempt brought out the best in Americans in terms of esprit and ingenuity. Two young Minnesota entrepreneurs paid their own way to Alaska, quickly managing with a special de-icing device to calm the whales by enlarging the holes in the ice. But it also raised troubling questions about the human proclivity either to pretend that animals are more like people than they are or to treat them as mere commodities...
...expert on sticky situations, the Athletic-turned-Dodger Howell, says of his ex-teammates, "They're all pretty calm that way, studied, directed, prepared -- they're real prepared." His obvious reference is to Tony La Russa, 44, a thoughtful manager whose unusual breadth has never required him to let out his pants. Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper...