Although Deng and his successors were able to quiet labor unrest and strike action for a while, the trend over the last five years or so has been clear.
Unable to quiet the unrest, or even fully understand it, Indian leaders this week sent the equivalent of a peace delegation to Kashmir.
The memo could have been aimed at quieting internal unrest about Facebook's chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan.
South Africa, which neighbors Zimbabwe and has long played an outsize role in its affairs, has been largely quiet on the unrest.
The meeting today seemed primarily to be a chance for the Saudis to lecture the American president, to strengthen their hand and quiet the growing unrest in their streets.
As dusk approached, Police Commission President Stanley K. Sheinbaum said even the National Guard and the California Highway Patrol will not be enough to quiet the spreading unrest.
In a bid to quiet potential domestic unrest amid the galloping inflation that has devastated Venezuelans' purchasing power, Maduro on Friday announced a new set of price controls and a rise in the minimum wage to 180 million bolivars per month, up from 5.2 million.
But even some big New York firms, like Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, have engaged in quiet layoffs this year, citing market unrest that has dried up demand for some types of corporate legal work.
The region's rulers have long relied on their oil wealth as a way to keep their citizens quiet but as ripples of unrest spread, this may not work for ever.Kuwait's prime minister, Sheikh Nasser al-Sabah, a senior member of the ruling family, had to step down on November 28th over allegations of corruption.
Domestically, Mr. Fox has secured passage of the so-called indigenous reform, which gives greater autonomy to Mexico's regions and minorities and should quiet much of the social unrest in the south.
Graham recently returned from a tour of nations around the Middle East aimed at coming up with a broad international plan to quiet the region's growing unrest. .
