Word: calms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series stands well apart from most other current family shows, with their contrived plots and wisecracking tots. Parents on The Cosby Show are figures of calm authority, not boobs, and episodes revolve around the realistic trivia of everyday family life: Dad goes out to buy a new car, or a daughter tries to explain her bad grades. Such plots, of course, are simply a throwback to slice-of-family-life shows of the '50s and '60s like Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, and Cosby's success may partly reflect nostalgia for those simpler old times...
...every city the Pope has hit a home run -- with the bases loaded," beamed Houston's Bishop Joseph Fiorenza. But that seemed a pardonable exaggeration. By no reckoning had John Paul taken America with the same wave of enthusiasm that his 1979 tour generated. Possibly, however, the relative calm of this visit suited John Paul, for nothing he did distracted from the strong message of papal authority he sought to deliver...
...Dade County Cultural Center, John Paul held another sensitive meeting, this time with 196 American Jewish leaders. The Pope had seen several of the dignitaries the previous week in Rome, in a bid to calm the Jewish outrage that followed his June audience with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. The Rome meeting failed to mollify two major organizations of U.S. Orthodox Jews, which boycotted last week's Miami session. But for those who attended, the meeting radiated conciliation...
Iran remained relatively calm following a fit of frenzy two weeks ago. After blaming the U.S. for riots that killed nearly 300 Iranian pilgrims in Mecca, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini launched four days of war games in the strait and loudly promised to settle the score. Late last week an explosion at an Aramco gas plant on the Saudi Arabian coast raised fears that Iran was stepping up its campaign of terrorist subversion against its gulf neighbors. Some 20 workers were killed. Earlier, Iranian officials paid lip service to a United Nations Security Council resolution that called...
...will end there, since awareness among the lawmakers of the larger geopolitical issues is likely to temper a more draconian response to Pakistan's less than cooperative rejoinder. But at the same time, the hope among U.S. officials is that Pakistan will come to grips with the necessity to calm legitimate fears in Washington that Pakistan's nuclear program might touch off a dangerous regional arms race...