Word: reined
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...second mood--that Russia has free rein to act as it pleases on the international scene--is also ominous. It has already tempted Moscow to intimidate newly independent Georgia; reverse the gains of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; wage aggressive cyberwar against E.U. member Estonia after the Estonians dared to remove from the center of their capital a monument celebrating Soviet domination of their country; impose an oil embargo on Lithuania; monopolize international access to the energy resources of Central Asia. In all these cases, the U.S., consumed as it is by the war in Iraq, has been rather passive...
...high gas prices we are paying are due not only to the increased demand by drivers but also to that by the plastics industry for crude oil. When we rein in our use of plastic, we will stop shooting ourselves in the foot at the gas pump...
...fields is the biggest issue. "They can see the opportunities," says veteran oil analyst Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer & Co., "but they don't have access to them." Only 7% of the world's estimated oil and gas reserves are in countries that allow companies like ExxonMobil free rein, according to consulting firm PFC Energy. Fully 65% are in the hands of state-owned companies such as Saudi Aramco, and the rest are in the likes of Russia and Venezuela, where Western companies can get a foothold one day but lose it the next...
...Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou “was the ideal thesis superviser—she never said the thesis was an end unto itself. It was about the trials and tribulations of academia. She let me be very independent and let me have free rein...
...carry it back into the maelstrom? Could he stay as he is or would he revert? What if he launched a new kind of campaign: no handlers, just the liberated Gore talking about what really matters to him? Would he seem too squishy? These days he improvises, giving freer rein to matters of the heart and spirit than he ever could as a candidate. He draws from a number of faiths, from philosophy and self-help and poetry and from Gandhi's concept of truth force, the idea that people have an innate ability to recognize the most powerful truths...