Word: constraining
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...Inability to pay does not constrain students from coming to Harvard College and it should not constrain the most able students from coming here to Harvard to become scholars, or doctors, architects or teachers,” Summers said...
Putin has recognized that a missile-defense system isn't a threat to Russia, U.S. officals say; he just needs a prestige-preserving agreement as weighty as the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Bush wants to scrap. But Bush Administration hard-liners resist any formal treaty that would constrain U.S. power...
...association. This is what allows us to band together and accomplish common goals in civil society. Sometimes affiliations we dislike limit membership and advocate causes we disagree with, but we must defend that as their right. Just rules and laws cannot selectively favor causes we like and attempt to constrain those we do not. Our rights must be grounded in a firm foundation of justice, and not upon the changing winds of arbitrary legislation...
...founded on self-interest—not in the economic sense, but in the sense of a community assembled to promote a common good. For hundreds of years, we’ve built our societies on the assumption that human beings are so motivated by fear that they would constrain their liberties (or give up them up altogether) in order to enjoy the benefits of collective security—that even “a race of devils” could be manageably governed by the right system of contracts and incentives...
...next year. Dudley and Shepherdson are less optimistic, foreseeing growth of no more than 3 1/2% in 2002. "That's not to say that monetary and fiscal policies won't have any effect," Dudley says, "but they're pushing against some pretty powerful forces that are working to constrain economic activity...