Word: calmness
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...format of the evening is curious. In his calm and fluent voice - "dear friends," he calls us - he requests that we not ask questions, but make statements, so that he can react to them in a form of dialogue. The academics are not shy. They make statements not only about the need for dialogue and reconciliation, but castigate the Iranian government for chilling press freedoms and for arresting Iranian-American scholars who were only trying to foster better relations between America and Iran. Throughout, Ahmadinejad is courtly, preternaturally calm, and fiercely articulate...
...That may help calm those locals who subscribe to an anyone-but-Anheuser mentality, believing it would be an insult for their illustrious brew to be owned by what they consider a pretender to the Budweiser name. "It would be a smack in the face," scoffs retired car repairman Milos Homolka, 54. "Americans would still make beer, but it will not be the good old Budvar." Not that it would really affect Homolka either way. He has already switched to pilsner...
...Calm as the horizon, lying flat on his stretcher with his stolid wife and 50-year-old son in chairs beside him, Nick was down. About an hour earlier he had bent over to put on his socks and his leg had collapsed. So his wife and son dragged him to the car, and here he was in my hospital...
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna’s speech, titled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example,” proceeded without turbulence, and students who attended a private luncheon with the president beforehand said that it, too, was calm...
...brain, responds to potential risk by flooding the bloodstream with stress hormones such as corticosterone, which enable us to react quickly to danger. These emotional warning flares can be lifesavers if, say, you encounter a snake, but the sudden waves of emotion make it hard to stay calm in the face of a whipsawing market. Zweig says brain scans reveal that merely being told that you're losing money is enough to make your amygdala more active...