Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...German counterparts at London's Gatwick airport on Saturday. At a news conference, Perry declared that the credibility of the international community was at stake. But the impression he left was that further confrontation was on hold -- as one Washington official had put it earlier, "to let tempers cool...
...human-computer interactions. I know an editor at a computer magazine who treats his machine as if it were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological risk...
Carillo's cool competence appeals to the Cali traffickers. The Cali dons "don't want to deal with some jerk that's running around shooting everybody," says a veteran DEA agent specializing in the cartel. The Colombian bosses allegedly employ Carillo as a kind of nuncio for communicating information to the Mexican federation, keeping peace among rival Mafias along the border and subcontracting Cali business to them. "He has the ability to form alliances," says one U.S. analyst. "He's been the pacifier. If you're going to have power, you have to be able to make alliances...
...accomplish this, Robbins doubled as a history teacher, explaining about the old days when the knife, not the gun, was the weapon of choice; the importance of territorial boundaries to young people who have nothing; even differences in vocabulary. "To these kids, 'cool' means hip," he notes. "Back then it meant calm down, or 'cool...
...chose to go two ways, and the result is surprisingly smooth. For some numbers he uses singers in the pit. But six of the female dancers also do a rousing version of America, and principal Nikolaj Hubbe, a Danish import who plays the leader of the Jets, belts out Cool, even though he has never had a singing lesson. He says modestly, "You have less of an accent when you are singing...