Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been a quiet peace mission, as the official Algerian announcement described it, "to try to stop the bleeding from which both the brotherly peoples of Iraq and Iran are suffering." Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, the gifted negotiator who helped mediate the release of the 52 American hostages from Iran early last year, and eight other senior Algerian officials were en route to Tehran to try to end the war that has racked Iran and Iraq for 19 months. But as Benyahia's Grumman Gulfstream II executive jet last week flew near the point where...
Every spring and fall, the chief executives of some 50 of America's largest corporations get together without fanfare for a quiet weekend meeting of the Business Council at the posh Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va. The agenda includes tennis, golf, business discussions and briefings from top Government officials behind closed doors. TIME National Economic Correspondent David Beckwith attended last weekend's session and filed this report...
...energy. Emerson's sentences make a moral flute music-prose as a form of awakening. They move in a dance of sensual abstractions, small miracles of rhetoric. He had no genius for massive literary architecture; he dealt in the lustrous fragments of his essays, in a succession of quiet flashes...
Ground Zero, a week of quiet protests against the perils of nuclear war, symbolized the growing pressure on the White House to negotiate a strategic weapons freeze with the Soviets-a position that is morally worthy of debate but diplomatically dangerous. Meanwhile, the Administration was still trying to work out a stance to adopt in strategic arms control negotiations with Moscow. And other problems loomed: with China, angry over the White House support for Taiwan; with Central America, where rightists were forming a government in El Salvador, and the Nicaraguans were asking for talks; with Cuba, where the U.S. reacted...
...conference flyers looked innocuous enough. Done in tasteful brown and red, they announced a conference on indigenous people's rights sponsored by the American Law Students Association. An international panel of speakers was scheduled to debate issues of land, education and resources during a quiet weekend conference...