Word: reines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, the Congress has not been able to opppose Reagan's policy effectively and has allowed the Administration a relatively free hand, analysts say. "For the most part, Congress has not figured out ways to rein in the executive branch in these areas," Blanton says...
Delaney Smith also gives her players a lot of free rein on how they should play on the court...
High Tide's Lilli (seething enigmatically under the tight rein of Judy Davis' performance) is quite like Judith Hearne. Rootlessly she ranges the Australian provinces as another sort of fringe musician, backup singer for an Elvis imitator. She too drinks, and though she will indulge in desultory sex, it is not a high priority with her. Most important, she too is presented with a last chance to turn her life around -- to reveal her identity and reclaim her long-abandoned daughter Ally (the soberly lovely Claudia Karvan...
...part of a decade, the tune did not originate with him. Ever since Ulysses S. Grant in 1876, Presidents have asked Congress for the power to reject individual appropriations without wiping out an agency's entire budget. Reagan has argued that a line-item veto would allow him to rein in the big spenders on Capitol Hill and bring down the deficit. Says a White House aide: "What we're talking about is changing a pattern of behavior that has existed for a long time...
...mayor combines the human compassion of the old politics with the progressive social conscience of the new. The result is a man well able to rein in either the business-boosting right or the technocratic left. Al Vellucci is back in charge--the city's in good hands...