Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Mas-Colell, progress will not be achieved on affirmative action with strident rhetoric or draconian penalties, but through quiet, behind-the-scenes maneuvering...
...average Joe and Jane Harvard, burdened by papers, looking for a quiet restaurant in the Square, what do the milling crowds, the rows of portable lavatories all mean? Is there a purpose to the social event the Head has blossomed into? "It's like an L.L. Bean convention," said one insightful visitor from Dartmouth...
Nowhere was the shock greater than on Wall Street, where some traders had left work early Friday to enjoy a balmy Indian summer day. "I was on the floor until 2:30," said specialist Stone. "The trading was so quiet that I decided to go home." But by the time he got there shortly after 3, the damage was already out of control. "I saw quite a bit of panic selling," said Muriel Siebert, who heads a discount brokerage that bears her name. UAL shares fell 5 1/2 points before trading in its stock was halted because the number...
...Administration. Bush believed, correctly, that U.S. participation in the coup attempt would discredit the Panamanian opposition and anger Latin American countries in which the U.S. has more important interests. The President, however, has sent confusing signals by using macho rhetoric about U.S. military options. Such tough talk, designed to quiet right-wing critics, raised expectations in both the U.S. and Panama of American intervention...
...spiraling AIDS epidemic are awash in medical expenses they cannot afford. And the safety net beneath them has proved less than reassuring. Since the AIDS crisis began in the early 1980s, the nation's private health-care industry -- hospitals, insurance companies and pharmaceutical firms -- has engaged in quiet combat with government agencies over who should foot the bill for the disease, which now afflicts an estimated 44,000 Americans. And the tab is rising. This year the cost for AIDS medical care is expected to be $3.75 billion; by 1992 that figure is likely to more than double. Whose responsibility...