Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, issued a stern warning. Without a new agreement to curb production, Yamani said, "there will be no limitation to the downward spiral that may bring crude prices to less than $15 per bbl., with adverse and dangerous consequences for the whole world economy." The threatening words pushed prices into a free fall. North Sea oil dropped to $17.70 per bbl. before recovering a bit to finish the week...
...plodding bureaucrat whose soft drone is regularly drowned out by the assertive tones of his rivals. Another is a different kind of Milquetoast, one who talks tough but is steering American policy away from stern anti-Sovietism back toward wishy-washy detente. A third is no Milquetoast at all, but a policymaker who has so thoroughly won the trust of his chief that he speaks with an authority exceeded only by that of President Reagan...
Whether or not Hibbs offered his resignation in the wake of Harvard's investigation or whether Harvard demanded it is still unclear. Whichever, the University's ability to remove Hibbs from a position of authority sent a reassuring message to the Harvard community and a stern warning to the faculty that times have changed...
...delivered a fascinating collection of true but unbelievable tales: your basic Yalie-turned-officer-of-the-peace stuff. The particular charm of the book was not only its simple and personal prose but the cultural clash it revealed as the outsider struggled to serve and protect the inbred and stern townspeople...
Frontier life proves a stern test for believers and infidels alike. The only serene person in the tiny settlement is John Chapman, who is a disciple of the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and labors under an angel's commandment to plant apple trees. He will later enter American legend under the name Johnny Appleseed, but for now he serves as a useful emissary between the whites and the nearby encampment of Delaware Indians. The local chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing...