Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Harvard had a few chances around the 75-minute mark, the wind and the Tiger defense teamed up to keep the Crimson relatively quiet throughout the half...
...inflicting violence. And the training camps for terrorists are primarily in the Soviet bloc and the countries they support: Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya and so on. Now, in Beirut, there has been a specific terrorist act against the Soviets themselves. So far they have handled it in a very quiet and cool way. It is too early to tell whether, because of it, they will change their basic policy toward the terror organizations. They have created a monster, but they got a lot of advantages out of it. With this and other instruments of destabilization and subversion, they managed to convert...
Again, not quite; the present testing program at best stretches the letter of the treaty to the limit. Though the Soviets officially kept quiet throughout the latest fuss, it was only last week they conceded, in the arms- control talks at Geneva, that some SDI laboratory research would be acceptable. The U.S. contends the Soviets have broken the treaty by building a ! big radar installation near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Thus Reagan and Gorbachev will have quite enough opportunity to argue about ABM adherence. The last thing they needed was another explosive interpretation to dispute...
...decades Canadian banking has been both highly concentrated and loosely regulated. It was a system, though, that seemed to work. The quiet was shattered last month with the collapse of two of Canada's 14 banks. They were the country's first bank failures in 62 years. Last week a financial crisis struck a third bank, the Montreal-based Mercantile Bank of Canada, the country's eighth largest, with assets of $4.4 billion (Canadian dollars). Mercantile, which is 24% owned by New York-based Citicorp, has been facing a severe cash squeeze. Investors who would normally buy Mercantile's commercial...
...took you months ago for an educated man," the Rev. Cooper tells Keene, correctly. For the new settler has kept quiet about his Harvard education and the Protestant flock he once ministered to in Blue Hill, Me. The loss of his wife, whom he did not love, cost him a creed that he did not trust: "In whisky veritas. When Abby died, I was left alone with the Juvenal. Fearing I had been delivered into Satan's hands, I denied my faith rather than face God's wrath." He confesses to himself: "Within a year, I learned I could live...