Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whyte is noticeably quiet about the crime, dirt, awful schools and general corrosiveness that drive people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going...
...sure the Duke is now counting down the days until he can escape the State House. He'll probably go on to lead a quiet life as an attorney or maybe as a professor...
...drastically cut spending and started selling inefficient state enterprises. Still, the economy is stagnant. No wonder. The equivalent of about $13 billion a year that might otherwise go to internal investment or the purchase of imports is being siphoned off to service Mexico's nearly $100 billion debt. Under quiet prodding from Washington, the Mexican government and a consortium of international banks have been negotiating an agreement to ease the terms of repayment. Next in line for debt relief are three other democracies whose future growth could be in jeopardy: Venezuela, the Philippines and Costa Rica...
...wave of ethnic violence in the Caucasus and central Asia. Only < last week bloody rioting that left 20 dead erupted between minority Abkhazians and the Georgian majority in a Black Sea region of western Georgia. Some 3,000 Interior Ministry troops were dispatched to help local police quiet the unrest. But the audacious mining walkout has presented Gorbachev with the most serious labor challenge he has had to face, and casts in graphic terms the cruel dilemma of perestroika: how to raise productivity and living standards at the same time...
...Green River killer. They have made me out to be a very bad person, and I am not," he declared. His lawyer Craig Beles says his client "is a colorful character, but he's no murderer." Students and faculty at Gonzaga, who describe Stevens as quiet and studious, were stunned by the allegations that he may have lived a secret life. Chris Bales, a former Gonzaga law professor who taught Stevens criminal law, characterized him as a "gentle fugitive" who posed no threat to society when he was arrested last winter. Stevens had worked in Gonzaga's law clinic, helping...