Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copper tacks. Your ankles are strapped into half-moon-shaped foot cuffs lined with canvas. A 2-in.-wide greasy leather belt with 28 buckle holes and worn grooves where it has been pulled very tight many times is secured around your waist just above the hips. A cool metal cone encircles your head. You are now only moments away from death...
...will say to a reticent oboist, encouraging him to play a phrase more grandly. "Bass drum, diminuendo, a little less all the way through," he will call out to an enthusiastic percussionist. Levine rarely raises his voice, preferring to maintain a relaxed but efficient atmosphere. "He's cool," says Trumpeter Melvyn Broiles. "I've never seen him flip out. He doesn't blow his top." Even at pressure-filled moments, such as the dress rehearsal of the Met's new production of Verdi's Macbeth recently, Levine maintains his equanimity. When backstage noise threatened...
Just so, and aptly enough, opens the book Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, a new study by Harvard Lecturer Sissela Bok, an authority on ethics and author of the 1979 book Lying. Scheduled to be published in February, the book is scholarly, cool, painstaking and analytical. Even if it is not likely to crowd out works of romance, sex, adventure and physical fitness, its subject could hardly be more fitting, at a time when the human urge for secrecy sometimes seems on the verge of getting out of hand...
During the recovery from the last serious postwar recession of 1973-75, economic growth eventually gave way, beginning in early 1978, to a rebirth of high inflation. Then the Federal Reserve began to tighten up on credit to cool off the economy and bring inflation to heel. Yet making money scarce automatically makes it more costly, thus pushing interest rates up and sending bond prices skidding...
...disagreement on that, even in countries, like West Germany, where opposition to the Reagan Administration's use of economic pressure against Poland was once strong. The Jaruzelski regime seemed to know in advance that its latest "reforms" would fool hardly anybody. Last week, almost in anticipation of the cool Western reception to its legal changes, Poland announced that it would cut formal ties with the U.S. on educational and cultural matters, and "consider all visa applications from the United States with an eye to the interest and security of the state...