Word: reined
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...Thus people are refusing to fly because they can imagine the once-unimaginable, and terrorists will refuse to create the once-unimaginable because it is no longer unimaginable. The sag in airplane travel epitomizes the double-edged sword that imaginative free rein provides. While this license will force us to face and interdict the worst acts imaginable done by one group of humans to others, rampant credulity of imagination creates irrational and damaging fears. The key is to harness this imaginative credibility for vigilance and not paranoia...
...been out of sight, but right by the President's side. After Cheney's "Meet the Press" performance, word leaked that Bush advisers Karen Hughes and Karl Rove thought he had been too good - that he had seemed too fully in charge. Both have denied trying to rein him in, but after that, Cheney faded from public view, while retaining his powerful bond with Bush. (Hughes and Rove, however, no longer take part in the President's weightiest deliberations, because they're not part of his national-security team.) Cheney is the heart of that team - he's the swing...
...with our right to censor ourselves, our First Amendment alarm bells might start jangling if the government actually tried to set parameters for news coverage. Thus the curious questions raised when the U.S. government, in the interests of national security, is perceived to be reaching across borders and to rein in media coverage in foreign countries...
...State Department is certainly allowed to request that Qatar rein in its reporting," says Belle Adler, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston. "The problem is when and if the U.S. government instigates legal proceeding against another country's journalists, doing things like subpoenaing reporters, revoking licenses, or throwing people in jail. We haven't seen that happen here, and I very much doubt it will." Even though the Qataris haven't exactly agreed to acquiesce...
...Taliban that has provided a safe haven for Osama bin Laden and allowed him to set up his terrorist training camps. And although there was probably very little America could have done to curb Osama bin Laden’s fanatical beliefs, Washington had a plethora of opportunities to rein in Afghanistan from the fringes of global isolation and prevent terrorism from taking root in this war-ravaged country...