Word: temperedness
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The year 1932 was anything but consistent and even-tempered. The one overshadowing constant was the Great Depression: 12 million workers were jobless, and as the months went by, more and more banks, businesses and factories folded up. The year slapped a brusque eviction notice on President Herbert Hoover and...
The case was widely regarded as a crucial test for Mugabe's government. Tekere, a hot-tempered radical, is the third-ranking member of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and a popular figure among the 20,000 nationalist guerrillas still under arms. It was feared that...
Even with a shift in atmosphere, President Reagan is likely to find himself in the same narrow valley of limited options that Carter experienced. Already before the election, the Californian was forced to back off from some of his more controversial energy stands. He stopped insisting that the nation could...
Yet it never was these efforts at rehabilitation that brought national attention and new respect to Pittsburgh. It took the Steelers to do that. After eight straight division championships and four of the past five Super Bowl titles, no Pittsburgh native had to feel ashamed admitting his heartland origins. To...
While the rhetoric of many Third World leaders reflects only the depth of their anger and bitterness, Jackson's public statements--in spite of the threats she has received--are tempered with a broader concern: that the entire University community understand that for minority students, the recent events represent a...