Word: quieted
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...quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings...
...Before turning in for the night, Blickstead chats with friends. Amidst the flurry of explaining his whirlwind evening from Uno’s to Mather to the hot Asians’ doorstep, Blickstead, ever the Canadian gentleman, notices a quiet pre-frosh who has sort of blended into the background of the room, much as pre-frosh tend...
...After mentioning his work with Sondheim as one of the great three collaborations of his life, Patinkin named the other two as those with his long-time accompanist, Paul Ford and with David E. Kelley, the creator of “Chicago Hope.” He became quiet and pensive at the mention of balancing work and family. A husband and father of two boys, Patinkin warned students that, “If you’re away from your family a lot, your family will suffer—it’s a fact. Whether sacrificing your career...
...clearly, the phrase came into vogue when school prayer was disallowed; the OED’s next citation is from a 1962 article in the Washington Post: “A moment of silence...Would it be possible and acceptable to have each school day commence with a quiet moment that would still the tumult of the playground and start a day of study?” Enforced moments of silence have enjoyed popularity as a sort of ersatz school prayer ever after: A recent Oklahoma law mandates a daily moment of silence in all public schools...
...North Korea with its own laws and elected officials will be created from scratch. Private enterprise, not state socialism, will guide the economy. A legal code enforced by imported European judges, not Kim's fiats, will regulate the community. Most of the drab, dilapidated buildings that line Sinuiju's quiet streets will be flattened, modern offices and factories built in their place. Pyongyang has even appointed a non-Korean?39-year-old Chinese entrepreneur Yang Bin, reportedly the second-richest man in China?to govern the new zone. Li, after being told that his role in the grand experiment involves...