Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the Speaker is in any trouble in any sense of the term trouble. This is politics," said Lindsey Graham, who organized the gripe session. John Kasich chimed in: "Do I believe there is some serious movement against Newt Gingrich? The answer is no." Despite the temporary calm, cracks in the GOP were widening. While meeting with reporters, Majority Leader Dick Armey sidestepped many opportunities to express his support for the Speaker. Asked point-blank, "Do you think the Speaker is doing an effective job?" Armey walked away, saying, "You all have a good day." For his own part, Gingrich...
...that time Malcolm was starting to be absent from school for days at a time. His grades were dropping. He transferred to a public school but lasted just a few days. In April, after his mother called police again to calm another of their fights, Malcolm was sent back to New York. People who know them say Qubilah seemed relieved but that Malcolm was homesick for Texas and his friends there. A young friend of his in New York told reporters that Malcolm recently asked him whether, if he made enough trouble, he might be sent back west. Police believe...
...claim to be staunch supporters of the monetary union. But there is an obvious contradiction between Jospin's economic policies and the Maastricht requirements. "Their economic recipes are diametrically opposed to what is needed to join the euro," says Pierre Lellouche, a foreign policy adviser to Chirac. Seeking to calm such fears, Jospin said last week that his promised economic measures would be introduced only gradually. Quicker action is urged by the Communists, who hold three Cabinet posts and whose 39 votes Jospin needs to muster a majority in the Assembly...
...often than not, we students walk with our heads down and our minds full, thinking of exams, problem sets and papers that are soon due, "as if we had the weight of the world on our shoulders," my first-year proctor used to missing that Harvard, the Harvard of calm, walks and glistening lights, the Harvard that has survived for more then three centuries--the Harvard...
...seemed that all the nature lovers were in the same place at the same time. Everyone wants to go to Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and a few other crown jewels. But mile-long waits at the gate and fistfights in parking lots can leave visitors longing for the comparative calm of midtown Manhattan...