Word: quiets
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Things won't stay quiet for long, though. For all the challenges of the past couple of years, BA is perhaps yet to face its biggest test of the Walsh era. The airline's shares have plunged by almost a third since February, owing partly to worries that liberalization of the transatlantic market next year will cut into its profits. Under current rules, only BA, Virgin and the U.S. carriers American Airlines and United Airlines can fly to and from the U.S. via Heathrow. For BA, that restricted access has been a gold mine. With the industry in meltdown...
...Richardson's talk, at the Wells Fargo Hola Diversity conference in Des Moines, is part of his quiet wooing of Iowa's Latino vote. In a midwestern state where immigration is hot-button issue, Richardson is walking a fine line, trying to attract support from the state's small but growing Hispanic population while convincing Iowans leery of illegal aliens that he will not throw open U.S. borders to Mexico...
...become terrorist kingpin; Bilal, a flamboyant jihadi who declares his homosexuality in his martyr video; Liberty and Justice, airport security guards who conduct random security checks on passengers named Ali, Rashid and Abdullah; and Foxy Redstate, an ambitious broadcast journalist who uncovers the bomb plot, but keeps it quiet with the hope of landing an exclusive that will launch her to media stardom...
...remarkable breadth of experience here in the University," Ellison said at the time. "David is skillful and insightful and patient and very quiet in his style. I think many people may not realize what an important role he has played in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for quite a long time...
...later, on the day before the general election. Bush had been leading most polls in that crucial final week and seemed to be holding his lead despite the late revelation that he had once been arrested for drunk driving and had, as Texas Governor, tried to keep the arrest quiet. If Rove was worried, he didn't show it. In fact, he was convinced that Bush would win at least 320 electoral votes the next day, if not 340. He went state-by-state confidently explaining how this would happen. He was not spinning; he knew TIME wouldn't publish...