Word: rein
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...humbug, says Cori Pursell, 45, a mother of two from Overland Park, Kans. For the past six years, she and her husband have made a concerted effort to rein in the holiday hoopla. "Rather than focus on the shopping calendar of Christmas, we're focusing on the spiritual aspect," Pursell explains. "We've decided to not even put up a tree until the third week of Advent, and we don't decorate it until the week before Christmas." Other holiday trappings have gone out the window altogether. Several years ago, the couple stopped swathing the house in knickknacks and frills...
...good offices of Barghouti, and those who share his standing among the hard men of the West Bank and Gaza, remain essential to Abbas's own ability to restart peace talks with Israel. Negotiations are a non-starter unless Abbas can rein in terror attacks - and to do that, he requires the consent of the militant rank and file committed to the intifada, since it's unlikely that he has the political standing even among Palestinian security personnel to prevail in a violent confrontation with the militias. Abbas's preferred method has been to negotiate cease-fire agreements with Hamas...
...relief suggestion comes at a time when the government is trying to rein in a budget deficit that amounted to 3.3% of GDP last year. Although the fiscal outlook has improved lately due to a pickup in the local economy, many officials and politicians say a sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong's tax system, such as introduction of a sales tax, is needed?making it harder to sell a reform that looks like tax relief for gamblers. In September, Financial Secretary Henry Tang said he might consider the reduction if it could be clearly demonstrated that tax revenues would...
...prized assets of News Corp., which include the Fox TV group, publisher HarperCollins, filmmaker 20th Century Fox and satellite-TV firm DirecTV. Malone, 63, wants to resuscitate his image as a brilliant dealmaker and operator. Murdoch, 73, who has offices secured by fingerprint ID technology and keeps a tight rein on the company he built, is driven to pass on the business to his children...
...last months, the ascot, left unwashed, was filthy. For the last two years of his life, he confined himself to a few rooms within his bombed-out headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli forces periodically besieged the place as punishment for his refusal to rein in suicide bombers who were terrorizing Israel. In the last months of his life, the Israeli government said he could leave the compound, but only to go abroad and with no guarantee he would be allowed back. Having leveled the installations of Arafat's security forces and parked soldiers at the gates...