Word: tranquilizing
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...insurgency, Allawi said, is overblown by Western media coverage - in fact, he claimed, it is confined to three out of Iraq's 18 provinces, and most of southern and northern Iraq is tranquil enough to hold elections tomorrow. He might want to check in with the British troops in the "tranquil" south he described, because they tell the BBC that last month alone one base at Amarrah suffered 853 separate attacks, the most frequent combat experienced by a British army unit since the Korean...
...well illustrated by the current Kerry-Bush skirmishing on Iraq: If either man really believes some of the things he's saying, we're in worse shape than we know. For President Bush to seriously maintain that he has set Iraq on a steady course towards freedom and tranquil prosperity - or made it, to quote the talking points provided by his reelection web site "an example of reform to the region" -he'd have to be ignoring his government's own National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. If Senator Kerry expects Americans do believe his promise that he'd remedy...
...ways to protect the environment. The newly opened Four Seasons Resort fourseasons.com/costarica on the Papagayo Peninsula sacrifices nothing in the way of luxury. The earth-colored hotel was designed to blend into the tropical dry forest of the northwest Guanacaste region, and its breezy, low-slung buildings overlook tranquil white-sand beaches below. There are tennis courts, pools and a golf course. The hotel has made concessions to the environment too: 70% of its land area will remain in its natural state, and the golf course uses a type of grass that can be irrigated with a 50% ocean...
...Deng's relationships, with Chinese and foreigners, were never tranquil. He could be sarcastic, acerbic and confrontational, but despite all that, he managed to come across as a wise visionary. He could be merciless in cracking down on what he perceived to be threats to the stability of China, and he accepted the communist orthodoxy in the unchallenged role of the Communist Party. Though leaders purged him from the party, he was determined to return to it and remake it in his vision. On balance, what Deng did helped China just as what Bush did in his term as President...
...summer here may have been much more tranquil if I didn’t know Arabic: I wouldn’t have heard my smart, university-educated cousins complaining about needing wasta to find jobs; I wouldn’t have noticed that the young elite of this society—the kids with the connections, money and education—do not talk about improving the living standard in the country. But in the end, I am of course grateful that I speak the language. It’s the only way I can prevent Beirut?...