Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police began moving in on the Via Pindemonte building early Thursday morning. A former plan for a nighttime raid on the apartment was rejected because streets in the partly commercial area would be too quiet then, and Dozier's captors might notice any unusual activity. At about 10 a.m., 28 police and unmarked cars surrounded the area. Half an hour later, members of the special antiterrorist force took up their positions in the street, ready to intervene in case of trouble. Moments later, the truck carrying the ten leatherheads pulled up behind the building, and the raid...
Since taking office after the assassination, Sadat's successor, President Hosni Mubarak, has acted with quiet determination to keep both parts of that pledge and lead his country on a course of national unity. He has repeatedly stated that Egypt remains committed to the terms of the Camp David peace treaty, both before and after Israel's return of the last part of the Sinai peninsula on April 25. Says an Egyptian editor: "Mubarak has made peace the policy of Egypt, not just the policy of Sadat." At the same time, the President has promised to chart...
...quiet here? I decided to come to this school on April 27.1978. When I came in for a visit and found 3500 students marching through the Yard with candles and protesting Harvard's involvement in South Africa...
...except Harvard abstaining on one innocuous shareholder resolution after another. Not even having the guts to vote against the damn things half the time, because that might get students angry again. And last month, after testing the waters for a year or two and deciding the campus really is quiet, the Corporation has decided it can again allow its money to be lent directly to the government of South Africa. And no one is upset: no one knows it is happening: everyone turns to the sports page when they pick up the paper. If there was ever a lesson...
...quiet here? No truism is repeated more often than the assertion "somehow we'll muddle through, "a proposition shored up with this bit of evidence: "We always have. "True enough, in the sense that the world is still here. (It is somewhat easier to muddle through in a Mercedes with a rear-window defogger.) But we are not so privileged--we are the generation that cannot muddle through. Which is as good a way to talk about nuclear weapons as there may be. Before, there was room for complacency: if you didn't change something, it didn't mean that...