Word: reins
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Fighting Back. On his Moscow trip, Kissinger was given little rein by the White House to develop initiatives...
Despite Assad's championship of the Palestinian cause, Syrian domination of Lebanon may prove to be a mixed blessing for the fedayeen. Assad has kept the 17,000-man Palestinian forces inside Syria on a tight rein, denying them the freedom enjoyed by guerrillas in Lebanon. Last week Foreign Minister Khaddam, after a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, gave guarantees to Lebanese Christians that the fedayeen would abide by prior (but mostly ignored) agreements to restrict their military activities within Lebanon. Some observers believe that in future negotiations with Israel, Assad might even promise...
Nonetheless, the policymakers all think it necessary to keep a tight rein on the recovery, primarily by holding down federal spending, as Ford recommended in last week's budget. Thus a cautious theme runs throughout the CEA report: high unemployment must be endured in the short run to achieve higher employment in the long run. As Ford writes in a message preceding the report: "Overly rapid growth could lead to a renewed increase in inflation that would ultimately be self-defeating...
...cracking jokes is kidding yourself, and this is bound to bring Mary Hartman! a different audience from the people who enjoy taking the real soaps seriously. In fact, all soaps are a solitary trip on which the individual viewer's imagination is given free rein. No two fans ever understand a soap situation quite the same...
According to Halberstam, the man most interested in the bottom line is CBS Inc. Chairman William S. Paley. In the early days of TV, Paley gave his news team free rein and approved a plan to expand the evening news. But as television audiences-and the cost of advertising-grew, the inevitable drive to improve profits led Paley to increase the number of popular entertainment shows. The distinguished weekly documentary See It Now with Edward R. Murrow, for example, was often shunted from one time slot to another and finally canceled. Paley, says Halberstam, found it too controversial...