Word: quell
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Even that impressive plot line, however, was not enough to quell the concerns raised by Eisner's brush with mortality two weeks ago, when he was rushed to surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member...
...South African government announced the formation of a "truth commission" to investigate acts of political violence committed in the past and to make recommendations on possible amnesties. In a separate move, President Nelson Mandela reduced the sentences of virtually all the country's inmates to try to quell rioting at half a dozen prisons...
...that the plan is in place, the athletics department may be banking that the money will quell complaints about its support of women's athletes...
...said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only 34% of respondents favored doing something to quell the violence, while 51% opposed any action. Clinton confirmed that judgment with a new presidential directive on U.S. participation in peacekeeping abroad: those operations, it says, "should not be open-ended commitments, but linked to concrete political solutions...
Adding to Crimson maladies was sophomore Eli pitcher Jennifer Surface. The former Ivy League Rookie of the Year worked hard on the mound for all of game one and half of game two to quell any dreams of victory the Crimson may have had dancing in its head...