Word: relaxedness
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The aggressiveness that caused Navarrette's estrangement from his Chicano peers becomes evident in conversation with him. If Harvard taught him anything, it was how to make sure he gets his message across. Repeating the phrases "I'll tell you this..." and "One thing that's interesting...," Navarrette manages to...
The Crimeds were seated in pairs of two and engaged in serious, if a little stilted, conversation. One of the twosome was usually talking rapidly, a nervous smile punctuating each of his or her points. The listener seemed reserved, relaxed, even smug. They were oblivious to the diners around them...
"I was intense and stressed out in high school. Here, I am more relaxed, instead of taking [swim problems] home with me, I leave them at the pool," she added.
"The interviews I had after that were morepolished and more relaxed," he says.
Fortunately, it doesn't have to be. The Senate has begun hearings that will ultimately lead to the reauthorization, and possible strengthening, of the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. But the debate will be long and difficult. Environmental groups such as the N.R.D.C. want stricter enforcement of the existing rules...