Word: reins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they please if they only stretch the rules long enough, and that if they ignore the laws, the laws will go away. That doesn't seem likely. On the other hand, the upper classes are not suffering socially; liquor is flowing on Friday afternoons, albeit with a gentle rein...
...colleagues is that he has paced himself well. Says Eugene Kohn, a former accompanist and coach of Pavarotti's: "There was fear that he would lose the bloom of sound and the top notes. But if the repertoire stays too light, you don't give the voice free rein. I recently heard him in Luisa Miller in London, and ins voice was fantastically enriched for having sung heavier parts." Pavarotti is preparing the formidable role of Radames in Aida for San Francisco in 1981. Lohengrin may even be down the road some day. "I continue to take risks," he says...
...party in Tehran. The exception was the National Front, the ineffectual old party of the late Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. The only party actually outlawed is the Kurdish Democratic Party, which is supporting the fight for Kurdish autonomy. But other parties will be either outlawed or kept under a tight rein. Among these is the pro-Moscow Tudeh (Communist) Party, which has followed the clergy's line so unashamedly that political observers in Tehran refer to the party's first secretary, Noureddin Kianuri, as the Ayatullah Kianuri. No matter. The Tudeh, like other "loyal non-Islamic parties," will...
...quick fixes have lastingly slowed the spiral. Temporary cuts in Government spending, coupled with a tight rein on monetary growth, as Richard Nixon tried in 1969, brought on recession and aggravated unemployment, but inflation stayed strong. Freezing wages and prices, as Nixon did in 1971, merely built up pressure for huge price increases later...
...drifting toward anarchy. The Cabinet of Premier Mehdi Bazargan was on the verge of collapse. Appalled by the overcrowded condition of prisons in Tehran, Attorney General Abolfazl Shahshahani instructed the police not to "arrest or pursue criminals" until further notice-thereby giving the capital's organized criminals free rein. As if to prove the government's impotence, a group of disaffected young Iranians, seeking to leave the country on expired passports, seized 150 hostages at gunpoint and closed down Tehran's international airport for more than 20 hours...