Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tested HIV positive shortly before the Seoul Games. One possible explanation: Louganis' book, which touches on the subject, goes on sale next week. In an interview with ABC's 20/20 airing Friday, Louganis explains that he was "paralyzed with fear" that his blood would contaminate the pool but kept quiet because his condition was "an incredibly guarded secret." Experts said there was virtually no chance the trickle of blood constituted a threat to any other swimmer. The doctor who treated the wound was not wearing gloves but said that was a "minimal" risk...
President Clinton abandoned his proposed border crossing fee today, in a move to quiet the growing clamor from Congress and several border states, which object to the idea of charging $1.50 to pedestrians and $3.00 to cars coming into the U.S. from Mexico or Canada...
...next morning, the quiet ended. Several cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands...
...south. He promptly put down a deposit of $31.50 for a room at the two-story boarding house, did not say how long he would be staying and declined a porter's offer to carry his luggage up to Room 16. Staff members remember him as civil but quiet...
...next economic ``tiger,'' Hanoi is beginning to take on the more disturbing qualities of Bangkok, Taipei or Seoul. Historic shop houses and old temples are being pulled down to make way for chrome-and-glass hotels and offices--monuments to raw capitalism. Where the leafy streets were once blessedly quiet, they now reverberate with the rumble of bulldozers and the honking of car horns. Bicycles and pedicabs, once the only traffic, struggle to keep up. As new factories and office buildings sprout across the city, the antique sewerage and water systems are being pushed to the breaking point...