Word: quell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Czechoslovakia, the official newspaper Rudé Právo has also published letters expressing anxiety over the missile deployments, and local Communist Party groups have staged meetings to quell some of the fears. Church groups, however, have remained securely muzzled, as have the country's few remaining political dissidents. Last month a document from Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 underground dissident group emerged in the West, noting that about 20 members of the tiny organization had been picked up by police and warned to watch their words on the missile issue. Any expressions of opinion about the impending Soviet...
...security reasons, and on the Administration's side, that force is not the solution to the problems. It is true that the Reagan Administration understands the nature of U.S. interests in Central America, but not how to protect them. Military might, even if temporarily successful, can only temporarily quell the deep social and economic problem burdening the regions. Although even for the armchair analyst these problems seem endlessly frustrating, it's important at least to address them regretfully, does...
...could not look further, and turned away to quell the nausea. I looked again, a last time, at the body and the friends. Now a circle of vultures had formed a about the still bleeding victim, horrified at the sight, but relishing it enough to stay and see the blood-letting continue...
...most recent previous case, which Reagan advisers have cited as an example of a successful action comparable to Grenada, came in 1965 when President Johnson sent 23,000 troops to the Dominican Republic to quell a left-wing revolution. The action, which
Bechtel's estimate stunned Wall Street as well as the plant's owners. Cincinnati Gas President William Dickhoner tried to quell the fears of financiers, vowing to "consider very carefully the implications of such a dramatic increase." The following day, however, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the ratings of the three utilities. Two other services, Standard & Poor's and Duff & Phelps, put the utilities on a credit watch. Fearful of bankruptcy, Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric and Dayton Power & Light have asked the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to rule on who would be liable...