Word: reined
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...special obligation to technological experimentation. “The most complicated technical aspect is allowing for the ‘ghosts’ to appear from [out of] the portraits,” Ur writes in e-mail. While the orchestra and set-and-tech crew mostly have free rein, Krause provides few guidelines for them to follow when creating the musical and visual settings. He explains to them the vision that he wants to create on stage—Thompson, Tsurumi, the orchestra, and the tech crew interpret that vision into art.“I explained my thoughts...
...Many who don't find them lovable still acknowledge their usefulness. About 4,000 years after arriving from Asia, dingoes have carved out an ecological role - research suggests that they keep down feral cat and fox numbers, and can also rein in kangaroo populations. And there's little dispute that they're preferable to hybrids, which tend to be bigger, more aggressive and breed twice a year, rather than the dingo's one annual litter. On his 5,700-sq.-km Napperby Station outside Alice Springs, in a bad year cattleman Roy Chisholm can lose 1% of his calves...
...little. Fran was the second. She and most of her Polish Catholic family came to Grandpa’s funeral. Here’s one thing I know about me: along with the gefilte fish, I inherited a longing for self-control. In difficult situations, I can usually rein in my emotions. It’s not that I don’t feel anger or sorrow or frustration, but I’ve gotten pretty good at keeping them in check. But when my dad called the night I heard about Grandpa’s death, my ability...
...seen this movie before, and it was called the 1970s. But despite the warning signs out there, don't expect a return to 1970s-style inflation. As long-term interest rates rise, it should cool the economy's bubble-spot, real estate, which will cause consumers to rein in their spending and prevent companies from raising prices too much. Meanwhile, as gas and oil production recover from the Gulf Coast hurricanes, fuel prices should stabilize or even fall...
...compelled speech. But if they take that grant with that condition, they are obligated to that condition,” he said.Greenfield responded to Eastman’s argument with a list of possible conditions he thought the government might freely attach to grants if it were given free rein.“So what’s the next law likely to be?” he asked. “A condition on your student loan that says that you are not to protest on the Iraq War during your time in school. Or a welfare benefit conditioned...