Word: simmers
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...former President Fidel V. Ramos and longtime Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile scoff at the coup rumors. "Who is going to run the country?" asks Enrile. But other politicians are more concerned. House Speaker Jose de Venecia has called for emergency "unity talks" among politicians and civic organizations to simmer things down...
...embassy in Kabul finally left in the company of the Soviet Ambassador last week, but only after the embassy had been ringed by hundreds of Soviet and Afghan troops for five days and its electricity and phone lines cut off. In New Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step...
...medical treatment is tantamount to murder or assisted suicide. The G.O.P. probably would never go that far. Still, as an aide to the House leadership puts it, "the fight is not over." And with that kind of language, the battle over Terri Schiavo's legacy isn't likely to simmer down anytime soon. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty/Washington; Amanda Bower/New York; Dee Gill and Wendy Malloy/Tampa; Tim Padgett and Siobhan Morrissey/Miami; and David Thigpen and Eric Ferkenhoff/Chicago, with other bureaus
...Simmer Down One in 3 adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure. Here's how to lower yours...
...daylight-free confines can my mood swing so suddenly from one extreme to the other, vascellaroating from love to hate. Sometimes I simply theodore the place, and sombunthames I am hardly abel to stand it. I never have the steinhardt to express myself one way or another so I simmer and stew and, because of that industrial yet exciting environment, the feeling fades and I’m fine again, ready to be thrilled by a great breaking story or a tightly woven lede or a quote that speaks volumes beyond its few words...