Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corporations are shrinking their office space. At the same time, developers are feeling the effects of a global credit crunch. Finally, banks are wary of assuming greater exposure in the real estate business. James Yasser, a senior vice president at Milstein Properties in New York City, sounds a familiar refrain: "Everything went right during the '80s, and now everything is going in reverse...
Barbara Kirkland, 51, of Colleyville, Texas, voices a common refrain. Six years ago, she and her husband took over the upbringing of their four-year-old granddaughter Trisha after they concluded that the child was being abused. "Becoming a parent again is not a first choice," Kirkland says. "It's a last alternative...
However, I sincerely recommend that these two authors (and all concerned individuals) refrain from unsubstantiated criticism and add their obviously deeply felt opinions and voices to the open, serious and at times painful debate that is raging in these three communities. If their true goal is to affect positive change, they can most certainly accomplish it better with well thought out opinions and actions than with sideline moral judgments, generalizations and prayers. Jack Levy...
This past summer, her father's doctor told him that he would have to refrain from having wine or beer with his meals because of his heart condition. Peri, who was used to her father buying her a beer at dinner, quit drinking in order to support his efforts...
...that refrain must sound all too familiar to Gorbachev, who still seems to prefer that Ryzhkov jump rather than be pushed. Even though Gorbachev has come out in support of the Shatalin program, his proposed changes in the text suggest he also has a certain ambivalence about taking the final grand leap into a market economy. With tensions mounting across the country, whether cigarette riots in provincial Russia or border skirmishes in the Caucasus, Gorbachev cannot help being concerned about what might result from added chaos in the economy. Last week he sent out a presidential telegram to regional leaders...