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...will the Center, declares Schelling, build up a research staff, dependent on continual government contracting. He feels that foundation grants are not much different from government contracts in the fact that both may "explicitly or implicitly constrain the freedom of the research organization." "The expectation of further grants and endowments," he says, "can inhibit, consciously and unconsciously, a research organization in the conclusion it reaches, in the research it undertakes, and in the people it attracts...
...Thou shalt new housing constrain...
Unable to constrain the chanting mob of students, M.I.T. campus police finally called the M.D.C. police. The students greeted the arrival of the M.D.C. with cries of "tear gas," but the police refused to give in to the students' demand for martyrdom...
...unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel or constrain" the consciences of those who had accepted...
...complete victory or complete destruction. When once this sharp dilemma has entered men's minds, its baneful influence is a stimulant toward prolonging the war. . . . Those who are under the domination of such feelings go on, as in a hypnotic sleep, through abysses of unspeakable sacrifice and constrain others to a war of extermination that drains their life blood. . . . This fear should give way to a well-founded expectation of honorable solutions; solutions that are not ephemeral or carry the germs of fresh turmoil and dangers to peace, but are true and durable...