Word: restrainer
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...Miami family and their backers may be calling the government's bluff, on the assumption that fear of a potentially violent confrontation with the Cuban exile activists guarding Lazaro Gonzalez's home - who have vowed to die before allowing the boy to leave - may restrain the government from going in and collecting Elian. "Remember, Al Gore needs Florida votes," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "From what we've see so far, the Clinton administration has little stomach for enforcing its decision to return Elian to Cuba." The government has threatened to revoke Elian's parole status by Thursday...
...though it seems anti-intuitive for Harvard not to want to be the first (and best) in all areas, this particular situation calls for us to restrain our competitive nature. Before we devote our time and resources to developing a curriculum that with minimal benefit to students or Faculty, it would be better to wait and let the other universities work out the kinks in the system...
...addition, Carlos recalls being offered money "for sex" more that once. He clarifies that the money is not a proposition but a request to restrain his sometimes wandering eyes from the rearview mirror. "They tell me, 'Just drive around.' But I say, 'No way.'" Carlos assumes there are other cab drivers who don't care about sex in the backseat, and take the money...
Laws are bad weapons in the fight to protect privacy. Once we invoke the law, the bad deed has ordinarily been done, and society has lost. Attempting to restrain technological progress is another bad strategy--it's a fool's game and won't work. The best method for protecting privacy in 2025 is the same method we have always used: teaching our children to tell right from wrong, making it plain that we count on them to do what is right...
...tall strip of a photograph encased in steel channels. The once whole image becomes disembodied arms and legs. Because the continuity of the photo is broken up into segments, the original configuration of limbs is illegible. Are the intertwined bodies screwing or fighting? The frames of steel enclose and restrain the photograph's action, while the progression from one strip to the next increases the ambiguity of a presumably objective art form...