Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shattuck said he timed the study's release to coincide with relative calm on Capital Hill. He said that universities needed to convince other segments of society--including Industry and the press--that federal inroads into a academic freedom boded ill for them...
...atmosphere in the two camps was markedly different. Once again, Reagan was tested by David Stockman, the Office of Management and Budget Director, who played Mondale with a keen oratorical resemblance to the real foe. Before the last debate, Stockman had adopted two roles, one feisty Fritz, the other calm and mild. This time Stockman synthesized the two types on what turned out to be the correct assumption that Mondale would again be firm...
...Dutch-born Van der Meer, 58, who once worked for Philips Electronics as a research scientist, is the very opposite of Rubbia. He is self-effacing and calm; winning the Nobel does not noticeably excite him, although he admittedly wanted it. Says he: "Let us say that I didn't exclude it, yet I did not dare to hope we'd get it." -By Natalie Angier. Reported by Robert Kroon/Geneva
...origins of last week's oil slide reach back to midsummer. Buyers started balking at official prices at a time of continuing glut. The Saudis helped restore temporary calm by keeping their production low. As an added measure, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister, jetted around the globe to such non-OPEC countries as Egypt, Malaysia and Mexico, urging those governments to restrain from giving discounts or increasing production...
...part, the Republic's government should have the courage of its own unspoken convictions, and welcome such a move as the only realistic option for the defeat of the terrorists who would destroy them as well. Americans must have the wisdom to back Fitzgerald and Thatcher in this--the calm of this particular moment gives us all an opportunity for an outbreak of statesmanship...