Word: reined
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...remains a vibrant democracy subject to the rule of law and standards of morality. As your article noted, "Israeli law permits soldiers to disobey clearly illegal commands." The Israeli legal and moral systems stand in stark contrast to the policies of the Palestinian leadership, which not only fails to rein in the terrorists but also continues to praise barbaric suicide bombers. Andrew M. Upton New York City...
...some of India's problems are being addressed, others are getting worse. Although politicians have been promising for a decade to rein in the government's free-spending habits, the country's finances continue to deteriorate. Due to high agricultural subsidies, losses incurred by state-owned enterprises and an oversized bureaucracy, India's fiscal deficit has expanded alarmingly; the combined state- and central-government deficits have grown from 7.6% of GDP in 1996 to nearly 10% this year. The Indian government's rising deficits "are not sustainable," warns Takahira Ogawa of Standard & Poor's rating agency. Although interest rates...
...stubborn refusal to bend, he has extended the Pentagon's clout on all kinds of nonmilitary matters, from civil liberties at home to the conduct of diplomacy abroad. His power has at times verged on the absolute, and even some White House officials wonder whether anyone can rein him in. Yet for all his apparent certainty, he found a way, in his exquisite fashion, to make clear that he was under no illusions about the limits of America's new global war on terrorism. As a result, his campaign to transform the military is just beginning...
Although Griffin whips up his fighter at the prep session before the show, he has to rein him in during the show. Griffin’s is the voice in Matthews’ left earpiece offering advice sparingly throughout the show, and particularly during commercial breaks...
...most notably by giving seniors their first prescription-drug benefit. Democrats, who also know that a Bush victory on prescription drugs would be politically devastating, are scrambling to stop the $400 billion measure. More important, Democrats oppose the bill's embrace of private-style health care, its failure to rein in pharmaceutical companies and its generous subsidies for HMOs. The House narrowly passed the controversial measure early Saturday morning, 220-215, but only after the vote was held open for nearly three hours so both Republican leaders on the floor and Bush on the phone could browbeat G.O.P. conservatives, angry...