Word: reined
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...rules for those parties that ask for them. This is tantamount to saying that no one can steal—except thieves and pickpockets. Non-discrimination policies are not meant to address organizations which do not discriminate and have no reason to do so; they are necessary precisely to rein in organizations like HRCF—stubborn organizations which insist on discriminating in the face of clear prohibitions against such behavior. By strongly prohibiting already non-discriminatory groups from discriminating and yet opening up a loophole for HRCF, the CCL has made a mockery of the very idea...
Savings aside, the new purchasing plans come as part of an effort by Summers to rein in the highly autonomous schools and get them to work together where it’s to their benefit...
...mops up one war in Afghanistan and prepares to launch a second in Iraq, it is increasingly clear that if Franks is not Rumsfeld's better half, he is surely his other half, his alter ego, the soldier's soldier who can rein in the supercivilian and gently remind him that battles are won not with dash but usually with numbers. If Afghanistan had been fought Rumsfeld's way, we might still have commandos mounting up on horseback to hunt down the Taliban. If the war had been fought Franks' way, we might have nabbed Osama bin Laden a long...
...While authorities put the heat on Hizballah here, the U.S. has also moved to try to rein in the terror group abroad. In a private meeting in Damascus last April, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Syrian President Bashar Assad to restrain Hizballah forces that had been firing rockets at Israel from the north. A diplomatic source critical of Iran's role in arming Hizballah tells TIME that the U.S. has at least twice asked Saudi Arabia to stop giving Iranian military supply planes overflight permission for loads of weaponry earmarked for Hizballah. "We continually raise this issue with diplomatic...
...album is saved from sounding like a sinister movie soundtrack by the ministrations of Sinead O’Connor, who has one of the most poignant and beautiful voices in pop. Though she never gives full rein to her devastating range, her emotional performance on “A Prayer For England” stands out on an album that sounds almost frigidly intellectual...