Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet way, he carried a heavy load." That was how West Point's yearbook for the class of 1950 described Graduating Cadet Fidel V. ("Eddie") Ramos. It was a prescient judgment. Since he became Chief of Staff of the armed forces of the Philippines ten months ago, General Ramos has shouldered more than his share of the decision-making burden within President Corazon Aquino's fledgling government...
Vice President George Bush has kept quiet since Election Day, four weeks ago, avoiding any public comment on the arms-hostages-contra flap. Last Friday he broke his silence in a 45-minute telephone interview from his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., with Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and White House Correspondent Barrett Seaman...
...catches some of the morning talk shows, peruses the morning papers over breakfast and then at nine walks through the archway from the residence to the Oval Office. The briefing with his senior staff, which mainly concerns his daily schedule, lasts only about 30 minutes, and Reagan usually remains quiet, except for his trademark bantering. It is followed by a briefing from his national security staff that is usually even shorter. When National Security Council staffers prepare Reagan for a full-fledged meeting of the NSC, the President typically does not ask any questions about the topic at hand; instead...
...auto industry for the investment firm of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney: "GM has done more to help itself in the last three months than it has in the last few years combined." But GM's Smith will have to cut costs even more dramatically if he hopes to quiet the company's sharp- tongued gadfly, H. Ross Perot, chairman of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems. Perot, who joined the GM board when the automaker bought EDS in 1984, has particularly attacked GM's slowness in curbing old-boy management perks like chauffeur-driven cars and executive dining rooms...
...dual nature unified in Weston's work was evident early in his life. He was 20 when he left his home in a Chicago suburb to visit a sister living in a quiet town near Los Angeles. Eventually he was married there, established a portrait business and fathered the four sons whom he loved fiercely all his life. But a part of him resisted domestication just as fiercely. He found his friends and lovers among the pioneer enclaves of the West Coast counterculture, attic dwellers who shared his penchant for vegetarianism and modern...