Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gays and respect for "basic rights". The broad support that is necessary to wield effective negative social pressure will at the same time erode the foundation of gays' civil rights. In all likelihood, it will not be possible for you, Director even as the leader of our movement, to restrain the anti-gay social current that you fostered. A public furor, once aroused, will require a target and although you may add others to the list of your enemies, you will be unable to preserve fundamental rights of minorities against a majority faction. I'm telling you all of this...
...more than a decade ago by a majority of the city council and special Massachusetts legislation to enable Cambridge to cope with an "emergency" housing shortage. A city ordinance instructs the rent board to set maximum legal rents for the thousands of apartments falling under rent control and to restrain the eviction of tenants by landlords. The rent board is also empowered to make rent adjustments and to establish regulations or to take other steps necessary to enforce the city's housing policy, which has been amended since the early 1970s to add further restrictions on landlords, developers and would...
...both the Iraqi nuclear reactor and Beirut last summer and the de facto annexation of the Golan Heights-has angered moderate Arabs far more than U.S. arms sales have soothed them. Even some American officials fear that Prime Minister Menachem Begin now believes the U.S. will do nothing to restrain Israeli actions, and that in consequence he may yet order a full-scale strike against the P.L.O. in Lebanon...
With his customary low-key style, Howard Baker subtly increased the pressure on the President. He telephoned the White House to report that he would be unable to restrain the Senate Budget Committee for much longer, even though it is dominated by Republicans. If there is no firm agreement on the outlines for a new budget package by this week, Baker warned, the committee would begin fashioning a package of smaller defense-funding increases, new revenue-raising taxes and entitlement-program reductions on its own. Baker said he would be powerless to stop such a move...
Although angered by Israeli actions, the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made an effort to restrain its public criticism of them. Egypt feared that intensifying the controversy over the West Bank might give the Israelis an excuse for not handing over the last third of the Sinai on April 25. Egypt also does not want to give Israel any reason to back out of the continuing Camp David talks on autonomy for the Palestinians. For similar reasons, the Reagan Administration was keeping silent. The tension on the West Bank, said one U.S. diplomat, was something that Washington "just...