Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wintry Michigan day. In a classroom decorated with a large Scripture verse and accordion-pleated angels sit 27 third-and fourth-graders. The mood is quiet and serious. Lessons start with the Pledge of Allegiance, then a stanza of America. The students pray aloud for relatives; they thank God for Bobby's new glasses. For 45 minutes, their teacher, Joel Allen, 28, leads the students through Bible study. "Who made you?" he asks. "God made me. Job 33:4, "the children answer. During the course of the 6½hour day at the Bridgeport Baptist Academy, the students, ages...
...their story, as Chatwin constructs it, is an oblique commentary on the times of their lives. Posterity, should there be any, may well look back on this century as the time of displaced masses, victims of revolutions that threatened to set them free. The story of two brothers leading quiet lives in a changeless pocket of the world is a still point within the center of the chaos. Chatwin evokes a time of homelessness through the story of those lucky enough to stay home. -By Paul Gray
...months the cash drain was kept quiet. But eventually the lending banks began to pick up the whiff of desperation. Brazil dipped into its $5.5 billion reserve of U.S. dollars and even pledged its entire 2.5 million-oz. gold cache to secure credit. Then the government-controlled Banco do Brasil, which finances the nation's international trade, began drawing down cash, estimated at nearly $2 billion, that it ordinarily keeps on deposit with major international banks. When that was exhausted, the Brazilian bank was forced to turn to overnight borrowings to stay in business...
...happen is a paradox: a politician who has never before held elective office. Virtually all of Miguel de la Madrid's adult life has been spent within the Mexican bureaucracy, usually in financial or planning positions. He is a lawyer-technocrat who is known as a pragmatic and quiet but firm negotiator rather than an inspired political leader for difficult times. De la Madrid's reputation is based on his mastery of the details of economic planning, his simplicity of style and his personal probity. Few of those qualities were associated with his predecessor, López Portillo...
...country boy bar, full of rednecks in cowboy hats. "These are my kind of people," chuckles Nolte, "they sure as hell don't like you." Murphy takes the remark as a dare, and after borrowing Nolte's badge, breaks the big mirror behind the bartender. The room falls quiet. "Alright now, listen up!" yells Murphy. "I don't like white people...