Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet revolution took place this year on the top floor of Holyoke Center, headquarters for Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE), the University's internal property management firm...
...them. Last week the remains of 35 of the 37 dead sailors arrived at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base. Under a bruised sky, pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffins from the belly of a cargo plane and into a concrete hangar. After a brief memorial service marked by quiet sobs, the coffins were shipped to grave sites in small towns such as Greeleyville, S.C., and Fitchburg, Mass., all far, far away from the Persian Gulf...
...biographer; in New Haven, Conn. Pottle's 1950 edition of Boswell's London Journal sold more than 1 million copies and established his literary reputation as Boswell's Boswell. Noting his incompatibility with Boswell, Pottle once declared, "He was such a noisy, bouncy fellow, and I'm rather quiet and pensive...
...podium, with his exaggerated gestures and lugubrious tempos, he has become a parody of himself. As a composer, he has squandered the brilliant promise of West Side Story and the ballet Fancy Free on the embarrassing bathos of the 1971 theater piece Mass and his 1983 opera A Quiet Place. The unsavory life of the man chronicled in Peyser's portrait of the artist is almost irrelevant to the greater tragedy of the composer. Wealthy, acclaimed, esteemed, he and his reputation will survive this biography. Still, Bernstein is likely to go into the history books with an asterisk after...
...joint interest-rate moves reflected a quiet effort to coordinate U.S. and Japanese economic policies. Though some Administration officials were initially surprised by Nakasone's announcement, the White House later acknowledged that Treasury Secretary James Baker had discussed a combined policy with the Japanese and that Volcker knew about...