Word: quietness
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...sight of no less a free-marketeer than Vice President Dick Cheney being dispatched to the Hill to sell it to furious Republicans. But Congress is coming late to this crisis. Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner--whose conference calls can number more than half a dozen a day--have been quietly trying to keep the ship in the channel for months. Treasury Secretary Paulson, 62, was one of Wall Street's toughest dealmakers as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Fed chief Bernanke, 54, is a quiet academic who was the chairman of Princeton's economics department and is one of the foremost...
...students, the concerns about eating disorders, and what we were doing to support those students in the dining hall,” Martin said. Executive director Ted A. Mayer said on the HUDS blog this week that the dining services needs to address “the challenge a quiet and surprisingly large contingent of our community faces with eating disorders.” “Those individuals can place an undue emphasis on calories and other literal food values, making their placement over every food item a real challenge,” he wrote...
...served as a top domestic policy advisor for three presidents. A faculty member at the College for decades, he was the longtime instructor of “The American Presidency,” one of Harvard’s most popular classes. But that year, he gave up a quiet family life to do something louder—live amidst hundreds of undergraduates...
...sleepy neighborhood on the outskirts of Dhaka stands an empty lot called the Jalladkhana - Bengali for "Butcher's Den." A courtyard, flanked by a red brick wall and lined with potted plants and marble plaques, leads to a small two-room building. Inside, it is quiet and tranquil; a few candles flicker. Kept there are tiny traces of an untold horror that took place nearly 40 years ago: a pair of broken spectacles, a sandal with its straps torn, human skulls and bones. "They speak," says Mofidul Hoque, a trustee of the museum that preserves the site, "of an immeasurable...
...even Alzheimer's patients" could tell that rice was more expensive in China, and in response to China's criticism of former Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine (considered by some to be a symbol of Japan's wartime aggression) he told China "to keep quiet". His political gaffes make headlines, make LDP members cringe and, in the past, have strained ties with China. But Aso's awareness of his shortcomings, his persistence - this is his third run for prime minister - and his pedigree stand out. Both his grandfather and father-in-law were prime ministers...