Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Gaza Strip remained tense at week's end, P.L.O. leaders said they were sanguine that they would soon manage to quiet the enclave. Freih Abu Middain, a leading P.L.O. official in Gaza, estimated that it would take a week for Palestinian security forces to establish order. There was powerful motivation, since Israel has made further withdrawals in the West Bank conditional on the success of the Gaza-Jericho experiment. "We have an enormous responsibility to protect our achievements," said Lieut. Colonel Munther Irshaid, the P.L.O. officer in charge of municipal affairs in Jericho. "We cannot afford mistakes...
...while riding his bicycle -- Clinton found the judge to be "stiff and a little too eager," says a White House official involved in the selection process. "He also came across as very much of an intellectual ! who flits from issue to issue, whereas Ruth Bader Ginsburg was dispassionate, quiet and grounded. Clinton thought you would hire Steve Breyer to be a law professor. But he found Ruth more judgely." And so, last year, Clinton did not choose Breyer...
...exchange is typical of these two partners, who in many ways are opposites. Ray is tough and outspoken and has a growling, devilish singing voice. Saliers is quiet and reflective, and her vocals are high and angelic. Ray says she's influenced by punk bands like the Sex Pistols; Saliers prefers Joni Mitchell. The two never write songs together, and for weeks at a time they drift apart to their separate circles of friends. But something connects them. The children of professional parents, both are 30, Atlanta natives and graduates of Emory University. They have known each other...
More time spent studying for such classes meansless time for parties. And more quiet...
Although officials have usually gone home hoursbefore parties start, many students don't want totake any chances. "The floors are a little thin,"Cerny says. "I could just see someone calling usand telling us to be quiet...