Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration attempts to quiet protest have often been awkwardly applied and susceptible to misinterpretation, students...
...give a compensation package that totals $900 million? Under Section V of the revised military facilities agreement, there is a committee headed by our Ambassador to the U.S. and your Ambassador to the Philippines who can look into all these matters and start negotiations on a quiet < diplomatic level...
John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...
...time conferring with bankers and lawyers, and meets daily with Diller, sometimes for lunch in the Fox commissary. Murdoch also occasionally picks up a yellow legal pad and drops in on a creative session in which Diller and his top lieutenants discuss TV and movie ideas. "Rupert is very quiet in these meetings," one participant reports. "He might ask, 'How much does that cost?' or, 'What does that mean?' Sometimes he takes notes, but usually he just listens. Two days later, he can recite it back to you, numbers and all. He has a phenomenal memory. And he always thanks...
...Annie's a quiet leader while Alicia's a spirited leader," says Harvard Assistant Coach Sue Caples. "But they both complement each other very well...