Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gooen's conclusion, that pro-lifers should sit by and try only to persuade people not to have abortions is silly on its face. It suggests that people convinced that genocide is going on in America should restrain themselves to mere talk, instead of trying to use the law for what it is intended to be used for after all: securing the rights of the week. How hypocritical. Would Mr. Gooen tell those pushing desegregation through the courts that they are wrong and that they should only sit on the sidelines and write editorials? And with abortion...
...office near Shultz's in the State Department building has caused agitated speculation in Washington. The general view is that he will strengthen Shultz's hand in dealing with Pentagon hard-liners who are suspicious of any arms-control agreement. The Pentagon, in contrast, hopes Nitze will restrain what it regards as State's excessive eagerness to strike a deal...
...several programs." Sadly, it seems that the message heard resoundingly at the polls only a month ago has been lost on everyone but the President. We can only hope he stands fast in the months to come on his pledge to millions of hard-working Americans to restrain the growth of federal spending, even in the face of overwhelming "conventional wisdom" in the little world of Washington that "it just can't be done...
...would signify the long last return of the pendulum form the liberal days of the Warren Court. Others would say such a court would be an expression of the polity. But as Weinreb of the Law School puts it, "the hope in the Constitution is that the Court would restrain public opinion. A Reagan Court may facilitate...
Much can be done to restrain both money power and television power. Wise laws, to take one example, can forbid the contribution of money to any candidate in one state from sources in any other state. Wise laws can conscript time from the networks to be shared evenhandedly between the major candidates. New laws can and must help. Yet, in the end, politics is the entry way to power, cruel or benign, and in our system...