Word: placide
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Mleczko’s sacrifice for her sport did not end when she left Harvard. She married Jason Griswold in September 2000, and just days after her honeymoon she was whisked away to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, where the U.S. team trained together for two seasons leading up to the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics and an eventual silver medal...
Last season, Harvard and Cornell split the regular season series, with each club winning at its home rink. On the neutral ice of Lake Placid, the Crimson defeated the Big Red 4-3 in double overtime...
...India requires a doctor's prescription but is readily available from pharmacists without one?is generally considered to be safe when monitored by a knowledgeable doctor. But long-term users of Alprax?and of other tranquilizers containing benzodiazepine, the drug's active ingredient?can become dependent, hooked on the placid calm it imparts and needing to take it more frequently to maintain this chemical serenity. When taken in high doses or along with alcohol, coma or even death can be the result. "It is a good drug and I prescribe it to patients who display stress symptoms, but there...
...just the latest rider on Malaysia's crony-go-round. "Mokhtar is enjoying a rapid rise like Halim Saad and Tajudin Ramli and is closely aligned with Mahathir," says Terence Gomez, who teaches economics at Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya. The issue has roiled the usually placid waters of Malaysia's press. Writing in the business weekly The Edge, journalist P. Gunasegeram penned a column about Mokhtar titled, "When One Man Gets Too Much." Gunasegeram chronicles past disasters that he blames on cronyism, charges that they have cost the government billions to clean up, then concludes by wondering, "Whatever...
...pack by a pool reporter. The once-upon-a-time champ and fright figure explained the mutual-politeness pact between himself and Lewis by comparing it to the pigeons he now keeps in his spare time. They would scrap ferociously until they were fed, he said. Then they became placid and still. Intentionally or not, the metaphor carried over to the ring, where the issue had been joined and resolved, and the eight-figure purses enjoyed by both fighters had surely sated their appetites - at least for a while...