Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Police say Daniel Enrique Gomez, 30, had been drinking in public and lunged at the cop with a knife. Bystanders said Gomez was handcuffed and unarmed. Enraged, Hispanics spent the next two nights burning cars, breaking windows and looting stores in a melee joined by some blacks and whites. Calm returned only after Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon declared a curfew; by then, two people had been injured and 42 arrested...
...latest "President Quayle scare." The next day Bush gave Quayle a public vote of confidence. "I see him in action," said Bush. "I know what he's doing. He has been extraordinarily helpful, and I can't ask any more of him." Quayle's friends say he is calm about the controversy, sustained by Bush's unflagging endorsement. Notes one: "It would be psychologically impossible to explain his genuine confidence were he not sure of the President's support...
...Bush's words did not calm the jitters most Americans have had since Quayle, looking like a groupie greeting a rock idol, manically accepted Bush's invitation to become his running mate in a bizarre riverside ceremony in New Orleans. The string of verbal gaffes that followed only deepened the impression that Quayle will never be ready for the presidency...
...given to wealthy adoptive parents. Growing up in a stable environment, however, has not prevented him from being kicked out of four preschools for disorganized, rowdy behavior. Only when he started at this new school, where his teachers are trained to handle drug-exposed children, did he begin to calm down...
Ford, the Big Three's most profitable member in the late 1980s, has adopted a calm, steady-as-you-go approach to regaining momentum. Ford plans to roll out two new vans and a modestly restyled Taurus over the next 12 months. Meanwhile, the company intends to slash North American salary costs 20% by the end of 1993. "Our strategy," says financial vice president David McCammon, "is to keep improving quality, to keep improving productivity and to keep our costs as low as possible...