Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement did not quell speculative interest in Allegis stock, which rose 4 1/2 last week, closing at 72 3/8. Several unidentified investors were believed to be amassing large holdings. United's pilots union, which wants to buy the airline, said the Boeing-Allegis alliance will not affect its plans...
...Western financial support will allow Jaruzelski to end the Polish recession--and quell the frustration of the people. The regime of Jaruzelski is on its way to a definitive stabilization and the West is strongly contributing to its success. Just like Brezhnev had foreseen...
...Saturday, Dec. 6, the national uproar over the Iran-contra affair was at a peak. In his weekly radio address that afternoon, Ronald Reagan made yet another attempt to quell the roiling scandal, assuring listeners that "it was not my intent to do business with Khomeini, to trade weapons for hostages." The secret efforts to forge ties with "moderates" in Iran had been "broken off," the President stated...
...latest currency upheaval may have had ominous implications for international cooperation but, paradoxically enough, it failed to quell investor confidence in the booming U.S. stock market. Last week the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks continued its spectacular rise past the magic 2000 mark that it attained on Jan. 8. After showing gains every day since the New Year began and reaching record heights each day for the past two weeks, the Dow closed at 2076.63, up more than 3.5% last week...
...Christmas brought no respite. Ronald and Nancy Reagan exchanged gifts (a red robe for her, a horse blanket for him) and on Saturday flew off to Palm Springs, Calif., for a week's vacation, but in the Oval Office the President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would quell the furor over the Iran arms scandal, if only temporarily. But Iranscam offered only more grim tidings: continued inertia and infighting at the White House, increased squabbling between the Administration and Capitol Hill over how to clear up the mess, questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey...