Posts Tagged ‘quell’

Obama releases troops from Iraq, but can’t quell the sting only a soldier knows.

“Did we win?” That’s what my Twitter feed wanted to know in the wake of President Obama’s announcement that our troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year. I couldn’t be more conflicted about the news.

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FAA tries to quell sleeping controller controversy (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski poses in the cockpit of an FAA jet in a hangar at Washington's Reagan National Airport. Krakowski, the official who oversees the nation's air traffic system resigned Thursday and the FAA began a 'top to bottom' review of the entire system following disclosures of four instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP – Publicly fuming, the FAA chief collected Thursday the resignation of the head of the U.S. air traffic system, doubled controller staffing at more than two dozen airports and ordered a sweeping review of the entire system that ensures planes fly safely, as the government sought to reassure the public that air travel is safe despite at least four instances of controllers sleeping on the job.


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Obama tries to quell Dems’ anger over tax plan (AP)

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters after his meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on a year-end bipartisan agreement to extend expiring tax cuts, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, part of the White House complex, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 6 2010  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – President Barack Obama scheduled a short-notice news conference Tuesday to sell a new tax cut compromise that makes big concessions to Republicans as the White House scurried to assuage angry Democrats.


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Kyrgyzstan asks Russia to help quell ethnic riots (AP)

Ethnic Uzbek gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010, trying to seek refuge in Uzbekistan from mobs of Kyrgyz men attacking the minority Uzbek community. The country's second-largest city, Osh, slid into chaos Friday when gangs of young Kyrgyz men armed with firearms and metal rods marched on Uzbek neighborhoods and set their homes on fire. Thousands of terrified ethnic Uzbeks were fleeing toward the nearby border with Uzbekistan.(AP Photo/D. Dalton Bennett)AP – Kyrgyzstan begged Russia for military help Saturday to quell ethnic rioting as the country’s second largest city burned and thousands of minority Uzbeks fled to the border. More than 60 people were reported killed and nearly 850 wounded in the violence.


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