Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quiet Riot, returning to Maine for the first time since 1983, attracted the most enthusiastic and energetic crowd...
...Federal Aviation Administration established a special federal air regulation to help restore the "natural quiet" to the Grand Canyon. This was done with the support of the air-tour industry. The new requirements confine aircraft to strictly defined and narrow flight corridors. Today 92% of park visitors report that they are not adversely affected by aircraft sound in the Grand Canyon, and backcountry park visitors report seeing or hearing only one or two aircraft a day. The contention that visitors can't enjoy the park because of the "noisy aerial onslaught" is without factual basis. DAN ANDERSON, President National...
...Saleh, Arafat is "just another Arab head of state, like the others, running a dictatorship, with his own clique surrounding him." Anyway, he adds, "our future is determined by the Israelis and the Americans, who believe the Palestinians should be quiet and not make trouble. Therefore, we are given a little thing and that's it." Saleh, however, is not angry; his voice is dispassionate, matter-of-fact. "We live from day to day," he explains, returning to his counter. "I'm not willing to exhaust my energies awaiting the fulfillment of high hopes." Such resignation may prove the salvation...
That was where the real history was made, in relative quiet. In a divided vote, the board ended affirmative action throughout the nine campuses that are the jewels of the California state system, prohibiting the consideration of race, gender or ethnic origin in admissions as well as in hiring and dealing with contracts. At a moment when affirmative action is under attack across the country -- and just one day after President Bill Clinton told Americans that it had been ''good for America'' -- the vote made California the first state to eliminate race preferences in college admissions and put the state...
...Hemner, who designed the plans for the proposed construction, said he had been in the process of "quiet discussions" with the Harvard Square Defense Fund and the Cambridge Historic Commission well before news of the proposal was leaked to local media last week...