Word: tamped
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...National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said in an interview this week that "things could get really bad in the coming weeks." The anticipation of a spike in violence before June 30 is conventional wisdom among Coalition officials. But whether anything that happens on that day serves to tamp down violence in its wake remains to be seen...
...locker room beforehand, his tics - minor compared with many Tourette's sufferers' - multiply. He won't take medicine to control them; he won't risk even a slight dulling of the reflexes. Instead, Howard does what he's been doing since his symptoms first surfaced in the fifth grade: tamp down any rogue emotion, any stray impulse, in an endless battle to keep himself in check. His father, Matthew, is black and Esther white (they divorced in 1984), and at 15, Tim came face-to-face with racism for the first time; a girlfriend's parents refused, for the entire...
Every credible contender is doing his best to manage expectations, because beating them in Iowa is almost as important as beating the other candidates. Kerry, for instance, likes the buzz his reinvigorated campaign has been getting, but aides are trying to tamp down speculation that it might vault him past Gephardt and into second place. "A strong third here is the ticket out of Iowa," says Kerry's state director, John Norris. And when Jim Bernau, the host of a Dean house party in Altoona, predicted Dean would beat Gephardt by 12 points, Dean quickly put a stop to that...
...Hamas likely to stop attacking Israel while it deals with Hizballah. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has been futilely trying to tamp down Hamas since before he assumed his post last month. Although its spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, is at least willing to listen, most Hamas bosses in the Gaza Strip consider Abbas' regime a puppet of Israel and the U.S. Both governments have urged Abbas--who met with Secretary of State Colin Powell last week--to arrest Hamas leaders and agents if negotiations produce no results. So far, his moves have been tentative. A senior Israeli security official...
...Administration officials worked hard Friday to tamp down expectations of a speedy victory, saying those has been generated by breathless TV coverage - but public expectation of a quick-and-easy war may have been equally shaped by months of glowing public predictions from by the war's most enthusiastic advocates in Washington; folks who confidently predicted that Saddam's regime would crumble under the weight of its own tyranny...