Just when it seemed like the global markets were finding some calm, we got another dose of volatility today.
Talk of a bail-out brought some calm to financial markets, though there is a risk that the lack of detail may trigger fresh paroxysms.
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The return of stock market volatility after some relatively calm months may be exciting for some traders on Wall Street, but it new data shows that the individual investor is content to take some chips off the table here.
"There is some semblance of calm returning, " says Duvvuri Subbarao, governor of the central bank.
The line manager went on to say that "she took some time to calm the registrant down".
With similar sentiments to the best-selling Little Book of Calm some cynics may find the book, much like the song, not to their taste.
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According to some reports, calm is returning to Basra but achieving the same in Baghdad, a city of 5m people, could be much tougher.
Even when you are working, some world music can calm the nerves.
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Some measures proposed to calm the markets seem unthinkable to many Germans.
As Mr Trichet spoke, the ECB's traders were buying government bonds to prevent a run on some countries and to calm panicky markets.
Some are nervous but Finn was calm, unruffled and phlegmatic and he looked like he belonged.
To battle this dark hopelessness, I started Chinese calligraphy and taichi lessons to calm down and maintain some social contact.
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Meantime, various emerging markets are boosting their pernicious food and energy subsidies to compensate for the rising price levels or, in some cases, to try to calm politically restive populations.
Li, a badminton convert and journalism graduate, attributes some of her newfound consistency and calm to coach Carlos Rodriguez, who guided Justine Henin to seven major titles, including the Australian Open nine years ago.
Obama and Petraeus have some similar talents they are calm under pressure, cerebral, and adaptive.
Operator: Michael, I need you to calm down and give you some advice.
As the war of word continues, the prospect of an all-out trade war is firmly on the radar of some concerned analysts, though others remain calm.
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It needed some stern words from referee Nigel Owens to calm the situation.
Some witnesses told authorities that Lewis seemed too calm during the fire and had never tried to get help.
She told him that he had a great dialect, and she did some small talking to them to get them calm.
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He always offers such a sort of calm and cool and cerebral approach to some of these things.
Expect some fast scrambling to fix that new situation and calm markets.
All it took was some reassuring comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to calm the markets and take the focus off Cyprus.
If Mr Chavez picked someone similar, to offset his own unpredictability, they say, he might calm jittery foreign investors, even while meeting some of his supporters' reasonable demands and calming their wilder ones with populist, but unthreatening, gestures.
Bulgaria has been a little oasis of calm and tolerance in the volatile Balkans, but some observers fear there is a threat to that if his party finds its way into government.
The government has taken some constructive steps, including playing a helpful role in restoring calm, allowing humanitarian access to the many of the affected areas, and making a clear pledge to bring instigators of the violence to justice.
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