Word: refrained
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Congress is increasingly critical of the Japanese trade posture as well. Last week the Senate Finance Committee passed a resolution calling on the President to retaliate against Japan for its alleged failure to live up to the July 1986 semiconductor trade pact. Under that agreement, Japan promised to refrain from selling its chips in the U.S. at prices that are below cost. Concludes Baldrige: "The level of anti-Japanese trade feeling is higher than ever before...
This is hardly the stuff of which box-office triumphs are made. In their search for financing, the producers heard a familiar show-business refrain: "Not mainstream enough" or "Not youth-oriented enough." Because of the fragile state of Huston's health, insurance companies would underwrite the film only on the condition that his friend Director Karel Reisz stand by. The all-Irish cast -- including Donal McCann (as Gabriel), Donal Donnelly and Dan O'Herlihy -- was drawn largely from Dublin's famed Abbey and Gate theaters, but it had no star power in Hollywood's terms. All studios, major, minor...
Moreover, I am making a plea to Cambridge dog owners asking them to refrain from using Harvard and Cambridge as their litterbox. Harvard students don't party on your lawns. Don't potty on ours...
Moreover, I am making a plea to Cambridge dog owners asking them to refrain from using Harvard and Cambridge as their litterbox. Harvard students don't party on your lawns. Don't potty on ours...
Which makes the "they can't win" refrain somewhat ironic. It comes most often from precisely those people in Congress who are constantly fighting to cut aid to the contras, reducing their supplies to the barest minimum, or trying to eliminate assistance altogether. Having disarmed the resistance, they then assert that it cannot win, and then cite the inability to win as a reason for disarming it. A neat circle...