Word: dampen
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Clinton used his appearance before 60 people in a suburban Detroit television studio to dampen expectations of a middle-class tax cut. Meeting with business executives the next day, he floated the idea of a hike in the top corporate tax rate, currently 34%, as well as a broad-based energy tax. But the President backed away from hints that he might seek a one-year freeze on Social Security cost of living adjustments, after trial balloons to that effect caused a predictable uproar among the elderly and their friends in Congress. Clinton called on Americans to hear the "alarm...
...Clinton team has sought to dampen expectations in Haiti while it works out a new policy. To soften criticism that the U.S. was violating international law by forcing refugees back into the arms of their persecutors -- a practice candidate Clinton had denounced as "a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees" -- the new Administration said it would open up new refugee-processing centers around the country. But Clinton recognizes that no mere modifications of asylum rules, however humanely intended, can permanently stop the wave of immigrants to U.S. shores. It is much harder -- and much...
...environmental supporters why he failed to deliver on commitments made during the campaign. Just as ideologues during 12 years of Republican Administrations were thwarted by the courts and Congress from unilaterally rolling back environmental protection, Brundtland's situation illustrates how the workings of a modern democracy can also dampen the ambitions of true believers occupying the highest positions of power...
...less fortunate crowded into a standing area farther back, where the fresh dew that was quickly trampled into a boggy swamp did little to dampen the mood of Democratic revellers...
Aware of the dilemma, Clinton has been trying to dampen expectations about what he can achieve in his first 100 days -- or even his first 1,000 days -- in the Oval Office. Clinton declared last week that "the American people understand that these problems are of long duration and there won't be any overnight miracles. But I think they expect aggressive and prompt action," he added, "and I'm going to give it to them...