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...just presided over one of the more acrimonious Senate hearings in recent memory, but as he leaned back in a cushioned rocking chair, sipping a cup of coffee in his modestly decorated office, Richard Lugar seemed unperturbed, even placid. The Indiana Republican's composure belied the fact that he was caught smack between two formidable forces: the growing clamor in Congress for punitive sanctions against South Africa and the Administration's continued resistance to such measures. As both a loyal Reaganaut and an independent-minded chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar found himself in the unenviable position...
Boston driving skills and way finding are very special. It is said that Boston's streets are laid out on 17th century cow paths, therefore the way to drive in Boston is to think like a 17th century cow. Nerveless. Placid -- not too much, though. Superb sense of direction...
...once a placid pond where Western powers could splash contentedly, encircled by a ring of friendly nations. The Philippines were American. Viet Nam (Indochina then) was French. Singapore was British. Indonesia belonged to the Netherlands. Then, after World War II, the slow move toward regional independence began. Today many of the small countries that dot the Pacific are fiercely nationalistic. Yet, at least for now, most of them remain closely allied with the West...
...Kennedy-Nixon race started the class thinking about real problems, says Bloom. "Up to that point we didn't talk of world issues. "We were placid and dormant," Bloom says. Kennedy changed that...
According to Scherwitz, six major research programs have failed to uphold the notion that Type-A behavior leads to increased heart risk. Scherwitz's own projects turned up evidence that some Type A's may be better off than many of the placid Type B's. A pioneer in the field, Ray Rosenman of the University of California, Berkeley, now says that Type-A behavior "may not necessarily be bad for any given individual at all." Other researchers reported that many of the traits associated with Type-A behavior, including fast-paced speech and eating and a sense of urgency...