Word: restrainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broadcast of these disturbing images do promote violence. Not, as the psychobabblers claim, because they foster "desensitization," but because in all these cases the perpetrators have hardly been punished. Why should people internalize morality and restrain themselves from violence when society refuses to stigmatize such behavior as dangerous, criminal and deserving of punishment? At least on primetime, the bad guys usually get caught...
...want to restrain government spending, you have to cut [retiree benefits]," he says. "[Such reductions are] politically impossible but economically necessary. But he should...
...power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain themselves from the buying sprees Steinbrenner made fashionable. George, we're guessing, will not need a cap. Only a muzzle...
...fact that the new term bill contains the smallest percentage increase in two decades is a significant result of our continuing efforts to restrain the growth of costs," Acting President Howard R. Lamar said in a statement...
Clinton could restrain his need for new revenues by curtailing his reformist ambitions: his aides have privately discussed phasing in his health-care plan so that it covers all uninsured children by the end of his first term and only grows to include adults in his second. But even if he slows down on the health-care front, Clinton is still left with expensive campaign promises. , Among them: his pledge to establish a program for college loans that students could repay in national service instead of dollars, which could cost as much as $30 billion. Then there...