Word: reined
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...other league. That's Hockey East. It was formed two years ago, when Ivy athletic directors threatened to put a rein on the increasing professionalization of college hockey. The so-called super league has seven members and a 34-game regular-season schedule that includes frequent trips across the country for contests with Western College Hockey Association teams. Nonetheless, the ECAC is 5-1-1 against Hockey East this year...
...July the Reserve board voted to lift the 1985 M1 limit slightly, to 8%, but to restore the 7% target in 1986. If the board is to meet those goals, it will soon have to rein in the money supply. Martin and Seger voted against the 7% target for 1986, arguing that faster money growth may be necessary for an economic rebound. The Volcker-led majority, however, was worried that too much money would lead to an acceleration of inflation...
...more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony, the great piano virtuoso gave free rein to his bursting creativity, conjuring up demonic worlds through his pianistic and compositional sorcery...
Soon after John Paul II was elected Pope in 1978, he initiated a policy designed to rein in his church's most visible theological dissidents. Among the prime targets: Hans Kung of West Germany and Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands, who had challenged traditional dogmas about both the nature of Christ and the authority of bishops and priests. Kung was forbidden to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian, and Schillebeeckx's writings are still being examined. Last week the Vatican announced a disciplinary step against another scholar, Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 46, Brazil's leading advocate of liberation theology...
Everywhere he goes, Spock is asked about "the permissiveness issue," the charge that the doctor encouraged several generations of parents to ease up on discipline and give their children more free rein. "For 22 years, nobody said the book was permissive," he says. "That all started with Norman Vincent Peale." In 1968 Spock, a leader in the anti-Viet Nam protests, was indicted for conspiracy to counsel draft resistance. (He was found guilty, but the conviction was overturned in 1969.) Peale, an author and politically conservative minister, denounced Spock from his pulpit and charged that the student uprisings...