Word: reins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peril. So it seemed for several tumultuous days in Washington last week. Only two nights after the President's nationally televised address, an angry coalition of right-wing Republicans and liberal Democrats revolted on the floor of the House, overwhelming and sinking a bipartisan plan to rein in the rampaging deficit. The uprising left the government without a budget or the authority to spend money for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, forcing the layoff of thousands of nonessential government employees, at least temporarily...
...time when elements of the South African security forces have brought a reign of terror on South Africa's black population and the South African government seems unwilling or unable to rein these forces in," the statement reads, "we call on Harvard University to completely divest its portfolio of companies doing business in South Africa...
...Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Abalkin hinted that disaster would result if the Shatalin plan were approved without changes. Abalkin warned that trying an unsuccessful form of "shock treatment" might leave "the populace and the government allergic to the market idea for decades." Ryzhkov expressed concern that by giving free rein to market forces, the Gorbachev-Yeltsin group plan might set off a "staggering surge of prices, destabilize economic life and disorient enterprises...
...justify their decisions to send troops into combat, but once the shooting begins, those who must pull the triggers or staff the home front seem to prefer heroic mythology to the reality of fire and death. Understanding this, war correspondents from Homer to Ernie Pyle have tended to rein in their normal skepticism, serving up instead what both the government and the public want to hear...
...that almost everyone agrees the cold war is over, policymakers and analysts have begun to debate whether jubilation or apprehension is in order. Even before Iraq's mugging of Kuwait, some experts worried that without the superpowers to rein them in, other nations tend to live by the law of the jungle, and hot wars are a condition of nature. Hence Europe could revert to patterns of international behavior that not too long ago made it every bit as dangerous and violent as the Middle East is today...