Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volatile students, from launching assaults on the 39,200 "Zonians"-American servicemen, their families and employees of the Panama Canal Zone Co. "If it was not for this direct contact between Torrijos and the students, there could be a confrontation," says one young Panamanian activist. Torrijos' own reassuring refrain is that "we should not look at things negatively." He has tried to enlist the support of members of the Organization of American States and Third World countries of the United Nations behind his sovereignty campaign...
Until it becomes economically feasible to encourage more saving, Government will need to refrain from discouraging private borrowers by crowding them out of the money market with ever larger Treasury bond offerings. So far, the $59.9 billion deficit envisioned in the current federal budget has not proved difficult to finance. The danger of crowding out in the money market, and the real threat of a capital shortage, lies a year or so away, when the economy picks up added steam and corporations begin borrowing more heavily. But that is hardly a reason for postponing public debate over how to head...
...Popular Refrain. Castro has clearly indicated his willingness to make concessions in order to improve relations with the U.S. In February 1973, he signed an agreement with Washington that provided for the prosecution or extradition of hijackers, which virtually eliminated a wave of hijackings to Cuba. In recent months, he has also acted to restore free elections and a measure of democratic rule to Cuba. Castro's failure to hold free elections had become a major preoccupation of Cuba's 9 million people, as well as a popular refrain among foreign critics of the Cuban revolution. Last week...
Baryshnikov's life echoes Gene Kelly's refrain, "Gotta Dance." It does not require much stimulation to get Misha's blood stirring. If anything, he has an excess of high-voltage energy. It has been there as long as he can remember. Both he and his mother, a dress fitter in Riga, Latvia, recognized it when he was a child, and they spent a great deal of time trying to channel it. "I was interested in everything," he says, "football, fencing, gymnastics. I even sang in the children's choir. I was also very...
...vision, of a world in which our claim to "vital national security interests" in Indochina will be thought to be as ridiculous as China claiming the same in Latin America. We need a vision of a world in which we can trust the diversity of other peoples, and refrain from our childish and futile attempts to buy friendship with weapons. Luther Lewis Davis, Calif...