Word: tranquilizing
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...harbor and the city skyline. Then I'd walk along the foreshore through Sydney Harbour National Park to Chowder Bay for alfresco coffee and cake at Ripples Italian restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9960 3000, in a renovated naval wharf complex. Not far away is Balmoral Beach - a tranquil, tree-lined strand where I'd get my feet wet, if not have a refreshing swim, before dinner right beside the beach at the Bathers Pavilion, tel: (61-2) 9969 5050, or the modern Australian Watermark, tel: (61-2) 9968 3433. To finish off the night I'd take a taxi...
...quickly ushered in the market economy and privatized state enterprises. Encountering opposition, he governed by decree. When this failed to cow his adversaries, he ordered the army to shell the Supreme Soviet and arrest its leaders. A new constitution was introduced, but politics never became tranquil. Russia was swept into a maelstrom of fevered public disputes and wild capitalism...
...makes me calmer about our chances for avoiding an emergency." Maybe so. But it also points out how much more money and political energy will have to be expended to manage the distribution of an increasingly scarce resource. And the difficulties keeping the population hydrated in a politically tranquil Mediterranean democracy like Spain augur poorly for the drier and more desperate regions of the world...
After more than five years of sporadic terrorism and civil strife, few Ulstermen, regardless of their faith, had much hope that the slogan would ever reflect reality. This Christmas, however, promises to be a bit more tranquil than some that Northern Ireland has suffered in the past. Last week the leaders of the Irish Republican Army agreed to an eleven-day cease-fire starting Dec. 22. Terrorist operations were suspended, the I.R.A. announced, to let the British government consider the I.R.A.'s conditions for a permanent ceasefire...
UNESCO rates the "galleries" at Quinkan, where spirits are said to hide in the rock crevices and rise at night to roam the land, among the Top 10 in the world. That's reason enough for a visit, although the dramatic setting - a tranquil valley surrounded by sandstone escarpments - adds to the allure. It's hard to believe the Kuku Yalanji people, a tribe of hunter-gatherers, lived here right up until the late 19th century, their lives measured by the rhythm of rituals linked to puberty, manhood, marriage, birth and death. In 1873, gun-toting goldminers arrived...