Word: tame
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...attempt to redefine himself and his music in the wake of his newfound independence. In Doughty’s opinion, the music industry mass-markets an image of danger that is problematic not so much because it is truly dangerous, but because it is in fact absolutely tame. When he calls “wanting to break stuff...a dumb way to interpret an emotional response to music,” he by no means intends this as a condemnation of bands like Nirvana, AC/DC or the Ramones. Instead, he argues convincingly that fans’ so-called...
...find an effective way to tame bad boy MARK CUBAN. The billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has made something of a side career out of taunting game officials, but rather than recoiling from the resulting fines, he thrives on the publicity they bring. Two weeks ago, he was fined a record $500,000 for claiming he wouldn't hire the league's top ref to "manage a Dairy Queen." The expected media miasma followed, and this time Dairy Queen decided to horn in on the action. With mock indignation, the chain invited Cuban to spend a day dishing...
...Haji Shir Mohammed began by defending the resilient warlord he'd come to tame. Rais was never the Taliban powerbroker people had thought, the governor insisted. I looked at our Taliban gunman. He had fought with Rais against the Northern Alliance in the Panjshir Valley and well knew his authority. The gunman rolled his eyes. The governor went on: Rais and the elders had "confirmed the absence of Mullah Omar". We asked how he could be so sure? "All the people of Baghran are of our tribe, my own tribe (Alizai). I'm quite sure they wouldn't create problems...
...recession of 1990-91 resulted in unemployment of 7.8%, and the one before that 10.8%. The rate today is confoundingly tame at just 5.7%. Still, nearly 2 million jobs have been cut this year. That's triple any year in at least a decade. So the low unemployment rate is masking painful job churn and insecurity...
...Giuliani was nearly buried alive. In the hours that followed, he had to lock parts of the city down and break others open, create a makeshift command center and a temporary morgue, find a million pairs of gloves and dust masks and respirators, throw up protections against another attack, tame the mobs that might go looking for vengeance and somehow persuade the rest of the city that it had not just been fatally shot through the heart...