Word: quieted
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...like approach brought focus more to the music than to performance, but also somewhat alienated an audience obviously familiar with most of his work. It was also off-putting, because Benson’s songs are mainly playful and self-effacing. On “You’re Quiet,” he croons “I need a pickup / And I don’t mean a truck”—delivered with a sardonic scowl, the song was robbed of any glee that appeared on the album. For an artist rebuilding himself, it hardly...
...David Fridovich calls himself a "quiet professional." But after 26 of years military, he's finding himself in the spotlight as the Army Special Operations Commander for Joint Task Force 510. That translates as the officer in charge of U.S. forces in the Philippines, deployed to help that country's army fight terrorism. The immediate enemy is Abu Sayyaf, a splinter faction of the wider Muslim secessionist movement in the southern Philippines. Years of fighting the Philippine military has reduced it to a group of around 80 fighters, mostly engaged in kidnapping and other forms of banditry. They currently hold...
...doing our job, you won't see anything. It's nothing sinister; it's just that it's real quiet. We are quiet professionals. This is very counterintuitive for us, to even do (interviews) except that we need to tell the press what's going on. There's nothing going on here except what we're talking about...
...collapse on live TV. "If your wife was brutally raped and murdered and you had to watch and listen to it happen, what would you think the right amount would be?" Finally, Maureen Halvorson, who lost her husband and her brother, speaks up from the front row in a quiet, bewildered voice. "I just can't accept the fact that the Federal Government is saying my husband and my brother are worth nothing." Feinberg is silent...
...uptown in the apartment where Samuel Fields once lived, the fund acts like a quiet equalizer, a way for the government to guarantee that victims with less insurance emerge with basic support. Fields was a security guard for six years in Tower 1. He made $22,000 a year and lived with his family in a housing project in Harlem. On Sept. 11, he helped people evacuate the building and then went back inside to help some more. Fields never came home. Next month his widow Angela will give birth to their fifth child. Because Fields made a small salary...