Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Labor Relations Act states that "it shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees." The University's tactics may in fact be legal, but they may also be violating the spirit of the law by implicitly intimidating University employees...
...next time I come in contact with someone so obviously deranged, I may not be able to restrain my desire to strangle him. I doubt there is or will be a cure, but anality should definitely be treated as a disease, and Harvard should be able to provide a bumper crop of poster children for the first telethon...
...despite being stuck at near asterisk levels in the polls, Babbitt could in the end be helped by Hart's claim to have re-entered the race because the other candidates were avoiding substantive issues. Babbitt, with his rumble-voice lectures about the need to raise taxes and restrain entitlements, has long staked his claim as the brave knight of substance. Relentlessly propounding specific proposals and coherent themes, Babbitt offers as many new and bold ideas as Hart does, but without the personal baggage...
...Goes' Speech: This speech is given by a coach who is favored to win and wins big. This guy knows his team is good, but must restrain himself from saying just how good. Often this coach will lay credit for his team's victory on the general state of affairs, as in, "It's just been one of those years...
Sherman likes to keep moving forward, to constantly change her work. "I don't like to repeat myself," she says. She plans to go back to smaller size works and continue to restrain using herself as a subject. When asked what it feels like to be so young and have achieved so much success, Sherman responds with characteristic unpretentiousness. She says she tries to keep thing in perspective by separating herself from the artist who gets so much publicity. "I just don't feel like I'm the intellectual behind it all," she says...