Word: patient
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...sinking ship or a bombed-out subway car. The overriding sound track is silence. After the Hudson crash, TV reporters badgered passengers, incredulous that there had not been shoving and hysteria. But if we asked all the survivors of all history's mishaps, we would hear the same patient reply: No, people were pretty calm, actually. Which is not to say they weren't terrified...
...recent poll by The New York Times showed that most people are prepared to be patient with Mr. Obama. They understand the enormity of his undertaking. They have finally acknowledged to themselves that the worst may be ahead for the economy...
...this year out of fear she'll be replaced. "People used to complain about the long work hours," says Hsinchu psychiatrist Dr. Chen Sung-Wei. "Now they fear that forced vacation days are an omen of worse days to come." Hsinchu psychiatrists like Chen say they've seen their patient rolls rise 20% recently because of the strain that workers are suffering...
...Instead, he used his own words: "Our enemies are patient and determined to strike again." With that final warning, Bush entered the past. But was anyone listening...
...death is a personal loss to TIME. Wickrematunge had been a freelance reporter for us since 2002, and I am the third South Asia bureau chief to benefit from his patient and perceptive explanations of Sri Lanka's complex history and politics. For 25 years, its government has been fighting a brutal armed separatist movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in a conflict that has claimed more than 65,000 lives. The Tigers, who pioneered the use of suicide bombers, are agitating for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamils--a response to decades of suppression...