Word: checkreins
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...House the ambassadors from five moderate Arab states: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Sudan and Jordan. Sudanese Ambassador Omer Salih Eissa told the President that there was a widespread perception in the Arab world that the U.S. was associated with the raid; Arabs were looking to him to put a checkrein on Israel, primarily by limiting arms sales. Reagan responded by saying that "no one was more surprised than I" by the air strike. "This tragedy," as he called it, had resulted from the ongoing hostilities within the Middle East. Reagan reiterated his hope that the Israeli-Syrian confrontation in Lebanon...
...time for them. The amnesty does not apply to the 2,000 Greek Communists and other far-leftists interned on the Aegean islands of Leros and Yiaros, or to 20 senior military officers who backed King Constantine's unsuccessful countercoup last December. Papadopoulos aims to keep a checkrein even on those men he has released. "I hope they will not make another false step," he said pointedly, "and force me to put them away again...
...Appaloosa. When two strong men stake their claims to a strumpet and a stallion, the enmity between them can be the stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
...economic front, the "consensus" of his economic advisers, he said, was that 1958 would produce "an upswing rather than a continuation of any downturn." But in case of a continued downturn he thought "a little needle" would be better than "a checkrein." Therefore, for fiscal 1959, some deficit spending "would be better than to start now the question of tax raising." But the Administration has no intention "at this moment" of proposing any kind of specific legislation to pep up the economy...
...enough to encourage broad investment opportunities and individual initiative. By now he has come to recognize the high stakes and high cost involved in cold war, is willing to postpone tax cuts and settle for a balanced (if bigger) national budget and a fiscal policy that keeps a tight checkrein on inflation. Nonetheless it is plain that Humphrey is not happy with the course of ever-growing Republican government...