Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gerald Ford. But although highly ambitious, the former Illinois Congressman and Princeton wrestling captain does not go in for suicide missions. When Watergate loomed over the Nixon Administration, Rumsfeld engineered an appointment as Ambassador to NATO, as far away as possible from the gathering storm. "He was a cool and careful planner," noted Speech writer Robert Hartmann, who tussled with him for influence at the Ford White House. "As a politician, he recognized and respected fate; as a wrestler, he was ever alert for an opening to take fate by the forelock...
According to his own creepily cool account, before he teamed up with Toole in 1976 Lucas traveled from state to state, living out of his car, surviving on odd jobs or thefts, and randomly picking up victims. Sometimes he killed alone, sometimes with casual companions. The victims were often hitchhikers of either sex and any age or race. Some were shot, others strangled, still others stabbed. Many were mutilated...
Alfonsin will attempt to rekindle economic growth and to cool inflation at the same time. The new regime hopes that its victory will persuade edgy Argentines to return money that they have transferred outside the country. Alfonsin is willing to discuss the future of the Falk land Islands with the British, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who welcomed Argentina's "return to democracy" last week, reiterated that the islanders must be allowed to determine their future...
...stimulus was so successful that President Chun has decided to cool the economy to prevent inflation, now coasting at an annual rate of 2.3%, from speeding up. The government will hold 1984 spending to 1983 levels. Board Member Suh Sang Mok, a senior researcher at the Korea Development Institute, predicted that, even with the new austerity program, his country would have 8% growth in 1984. He was optimistic about the government's ability to recover from the Burma bombing. "The policymakers who replaced the old Cabinet share the same philosophy," he said, "so our present economic directions will...
Nonetheless, colleagues and officials say. Knowles's performance as chairman--during which he helped carry off two difficult negotiations to bring prominent outside scholars to Harvard--as well as his cool Ox-Bridge temperament could well have put him on Bok's lists of finalists...