Instead, the favored approach for several years has been to concentrate officers in areas with identified crime problems, as indicated by the pin dots on a crime map, even if that meant leaving more placid areas lightly patrolled.
Yet wages are placid in the euro area, rising by just 1.4% in the year to the final quarter of 2010.
But a vast area of highlands and placid villages, where Tibetan life usually centers on temples and monasteries built of wood and earth, remains a battle zone.
Instead of a nightclubby area, a quiet retail strip of law offices and delis is home to the restaurant, in a placid neighborhood of tree-lined streets and Tudor-style houses.
Whereas most of the other teams were "psyching up" in the marshalling area, the Australians were remaining light-hearted and placid, confident that they could perform in the water.
Since then, I've seen old people in doctors' offices barely able to make it up to the receptionist area, having this pain and that pain, only to be received with a placid "Hihowareya?" by a receptionist whose head is buried in her appointment book.
South of these mountains, the provincial capital of Ioannina is a fun, student city with history and ambience, set along a placid lake decorated with an island, is a fine place to base yourself while exploring the area.
At first the hilly country is replaced by flat areas at the head of the Tete Basin, and the river becomes more placid.
Mr. Goodwin, the executive director of the Adirondack Ski Touring Council, also provides ski condition reports for the Lake Placid area.
I'm usually quite placid.
