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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tamp down ditzy media speculation that his overzealous officers have been searching for the offending shark. He admitted that helicopters were monitoring the waters, but only so that officials could advise illegal swimmers of any shark activity. They know that the shark that attacked Martin is long gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shark Frenzy in Solana Beach | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...chairman of the board. During Smith's five-year tenure, Starbucks maintained its mind-blowing growth, but at the same time, it introduced sophisticated testing and R&D and took steps to boost efficiency and sales, like installing automated Verismo espresso machines. By no longer having to scoop and tamp coffee for each shot, baristas could make a drink 40% faster, moving customers through lines more quickly. Drive-throughs became standard, and the company released its first CD. Smith's successor was a Wal-Mart veteran, Jim Donald, who took the company into books, movie promotions and oven-warmed breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks Looks for a Fresh Jolt | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...Experience is a red herring. Does anyone believe that a modern President makes complex decisions without input from a team of experienced experts? The real question that should be asked is how willing a potential President is to tamp down his or her ego in order to get to the right answer using the best available knowledge. Measured that way, my vote is for Obama. He doesn't think he knows it all, and he talks and listens to people who don't agree with him. That's presidential. Brian Weiss, Pasadena, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...hard to miss the irony: the man from Hope is now trying to figure out how to tamp it down. But that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the spot in which Bill Clinton finds himself today, as his wife's presidential campaign fights for its life in Ohio and Texas. What is harder to figure out is how much of the blame for her predicament belongs to him. "I think he just did her such damage," says a friend and supporter, expressing a sentiment that many feel privately. "They'll never see it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: The Bitter Half | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...Raul's Sunday strategy was clearly meant to tamp down reform expectations -which the younger Castro, who has nudged Cuba's moribund economy toward capitalism and encouraged more open debate about its totalitarian politics, may have felt were rising too quickly for him to meet in the wake of Fidel's exit. "Raul has to proceed cautiously," concedes Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "In the past 18 months he has elevated popular expectations. Now he has to manage them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba, Still a Country for Old Men | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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