Word: temperance
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...Every time such allegations are revived, Uribe loses his temper and demonizes whoever is investigating," wrote Daniel Coronell, director of the Noticias Uno newscast in a recent column for Semana magazine. Coronell recently returned to Colombia after escaping numerous death threats after airing a report that alleged that a helicopter belonging to Uribe's father was found at a cocaine processing center called Tranquilandia, which was busted by local police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in 1984. In Coronell's column following Uribe's flap with Guillen, the journalist backed up some of Vallejo's claims...
...have a temper,” main characters Sara (Alterman) and David (Mogolov) both announce in their first lines. In the first scene, Sara immediately erupts into a rant about how she has inherited her explosive rage from her father. David proceeds to describe his own anger, so affected by his indifference towards life that even it is apathetic; the way in which he copes with his temper is to sleep. As the play progresses, the two trade off their storytelling in a series of anecdotes that involves Sara’s hatred of everyone she knows and David?...
...fact that DeMint and Coburn's amendments were defeated is nothing new in the Senate, and it does little to temper their enthusiasm as Congress rushes to finish all of the funding bills for next year. At a time when the conservative base is lamenting its choice of presidential candidates as well as the priorities of the Oval Office's current occupant, the two are the leaders of a small group of Republican hard-liners working overtime against Democrats and Republicans alike to make a firm stand against what they view as out-of-control spending...
...Chen has denied the referendum has anything to do with politics. The president also stridently insists the vote will occur no matter what the circumstances. That said, he has tried to temper U.S. resistance by making assurances to American officials that the naming controversy will go away after the elections. And Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Christensen on Sept. 11 followed up Negroponte's earlier comments by emphasizing the continuing friendship between the two entities. "We do not like having to express publicly our disagreement with the Chen Administration on this or any other policy," Christensen said...
...Sure, she hada delicatetemper and was prone to irrational rages in which she summarily dismissed diffident maids or waiters. True, she allegedly opined that "only little people pay taxes" and earned the nickname "the Queen of Mean." But as she saw it, New York City hotelier Leona Helmsley, who donned a tiara for a high-profile ad campaign in which she assured would-be guests that "the queen stands guard," was really just a perfectionist. By all accounts, Leona adored and was devoted to her real estate tycoon husband Harry, who was said to have always been spared...