Word: rein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge community should be aware of what is happening in our building. Since the Rent Control Board has not yet decided on these cases, it should be able to avert the sudden increase and rein in this kind of unbridled landlord activity. Eleven Tenants of 472-474 Broadway
...cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often we don't listen." Then, with one rein, Ray pulls his mare's head around until her nose touches his knee. He rubs her forehead, a gesture that has become a trademark of Hunt clinics. "She knows my mind, and I try to understand hers, and she knows I'm her friend...
...Congress will not be able to combat it with a large boost in Government spending. The budget imbalance, said Heller, has canceled the country's antirecession insurance policy. Fortunately, if the economists' forecast is correct, the White House and Congress still have at least a year or two to rein in the deficit before the next downturn strikes...
Elsewhere the touch is surer. Blessed with an extraordinarily vivid Mime in Dutch Tenor Hubert Delamboye, Rochaix gives the conniving dwarf free rein, particularly in Siegfried, where his exchanges with the sturdy Siegfried (American Heldentenor Edward Sooter) have a sharp, often humorous bite. And having Siegfried relate his wooing of Brunnhilde directly to Gunther near the end of Gotterdammerung gives the innocent Siegfried's ensuing murder a special poignancy...
Some graduate schools used a different, more formal method of decision. Since the Corporation decided the celebration would be a University-wide affair, the graduate schools were given free rein to select their alloted representatives on whatever criteria they deemed fit, Koivumaki says...