Word: temperance
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campaign trail they'd insisted that a final peace deal was within reach of a few more weeks of intense negotiation; now they're saying there's no chance of a deal and that they might as well settle into a unity government, arguing that their presence will temper Sharon's more ruthless instincts...
...sure, the Libyan leader has been known to temper his bluster with conciliation, particularly in the last few years. Libya has already agreed to pay $33 million in compensation to families of the 171 people killed when a French airliner was shot down over Niger in 1989; six Libyan officers, including Gaddafi's brother-in-law, received life sentences in absentia from a French court in 1999 for that attack. An investigative judge, Jean-Louis Brugui?re, was given the go-ahead late last year to pursue Gaddafi for "complicity in voluntary homicide," complicating France's advocacy...
Each Palestinian who approaches this checkpoint has no idea how the police and solders will treat him, but he does know that he has little recourse if he is mistreated. I know a Palestinian who was harassed at a checkpoint until he lost his temper; for his verbal barrage, he received a series of vague fines that destroyed the better part of his income for the week. I have met Palestinians who traveled for hours and took huge risks to circumvent the Israeli closure of the West Bank so they might earn enough money to provide their children with food...
...This debate has been going on for a lot of years, and its not going to end tonight," Galluccio said. "A public hearing would allow for the tone and temper we need for this discussion...
...center of all this hoopla seems not to give a hoot about its reception. Or at least he is trying to appear not to. Hopkins can be a volatile guy, but he usually keeps his temper under control. "It's a bit of a gamble doing a sequel," he says, making the understatement one morning as he sits at the kitchen table in his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home with eclectic art on the walls and a sprawling view of the ocean. "I don't want to think about it. I learn my lines, show up, make sure the check...