Word: allayed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Kennedy School of Government and elsewhere in the University, Germans and German scholars painted bright pictures of the future, while going out of their way to allay fears about unification...
...does not think in opinionated sound bites. Souter, with his Yankee reticence, does not presume anyone would be interested in what he thinks if legal scholars have already thought about it. In that, he may be the answer to the President's secret moderate dreams: someone conservative enough to allay right-wing suspicions that he has been insufficiently sympathetic to their causes but at the same time unknown enough to keep liberals from finding anything on which to hang another bruising confirmation fight...
...resort spa of Zheleznovodsk, they jubilantly announced that they had swept aside the last significant obstacles to uniting Germany by the end of the year. Yes, Gorbachev said, a unified Germany could join NATO if it liked. And yes, said Kohl, Germany would agree to ways to allay Moscow's fears about the future...
American officials caution that money alone will not allay Moscow's anxieties. At the summit the Soviets repeated their call for a replacement for both NATO and the Warsaw Pact: a vaguely defined "Greater European Council," which would be part of the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "We want a united Germany to be integrated into an all-European system...
...study, conducted by Susan B. Cochran and Vickie M. Mays, found that many undergraduates will lie about their past sexual experiences to allay a partner's fear about AIDS. The researchers said the study undermines the notion that asking a potential sexual partner about previous sexual behavior is sufficient protection against AIDS...