Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were not there, and the black bag in their charge were not within the President's easy reach, he would be unable to preserve and enforce a balance of power between East and West; he would no longer embody the sanction of American force necessary to restrain the nation's adversaries. In that case, the world would be an even more dangerous place than it is with one of these four officers constantly at the President's side...
Wills' point in rehashing all this is to claim that J.F.K.'s private behavior crippled him and his brother Robert in their public roles. Neither the President nor his Attorney General could cross or restrain FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, for fear of what he knew and might leak...
...warm weather and mushy in all of subway construction from the Square has a profound effect on the youthful hormone system, and this creates problems for the proctors as well as the Harolds of the summer school. Naturally you have a professional duty to restrain from philandering with the guests, but when opportunity knocks at 3 a.m., wondering if you have a match when you've said repeatedly that you can't stand smokers--well, you in the best...
...recovery." Though the slump has dampened business demand for credit, the prime rate that banks levy on corporate customers still hovers around 16½%, more than double the interest charge that prevailed in 1977. The high rates are partly the work of the Federal Reserve, which is trying to restrain inflation by reining in the growth of the money supply. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker told Congress last week that he would continue holding the line on money growth. He said that the real cause of high interest rates was growing Government deficits, which are soaking up an ever greater share...
...course, even the new warehouse will be overflowing with odds and ends. Smithsonian officials say that they are trying to cut back on the number of items added each year (now anywhere between 1 million and 3 million), but the institution's grand acquisitors are hard to restrain...