Word: restraining
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...report on its sponsors, but that news and business operations should be separated. “The news side of Business Today must be free to provide its readers a full report on the issue without any interference from the business side of the magazine or any inclination to restrain its coverage because Coke is a sponsor,” he wrote.But while Coke gets a full page in the magazine to rebut allegations, the company’s opponents don’t get a similar space to make their case. The magazine includes a poll...
...people in Minsk were making bets on how resounding a victory Europe's "last dictator," as Lukashenko is widely known, would claim in his third presidential race. Pessimists expected him to win hands down with some 78%, while realists expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to instruct his vassal to restrain his usual bad manners and go with a more reasonable...
Directly or indirectly, this $72 million in bonuses to five employees crowds out funds that would otherwise be available to boost pay at the low end of Harvard’s wage scale—or to restrain tuition increases and debt burdens imposed on students and their families. As the endowment has grown, one would think the economic burdens on students and their families would be alleviated. Not so. Every year since Bok’s retirement, tuition has risen by the rate of inflation only once. Every other year, it rose by substantially more than inflation?...
...suddenly in your living room. Demme keeps things cozy the old-fashioned way with long close-ups, slow pans (using a Steadicam) and editing cuts that are as sure and steady as the music and musicianship. Some sequences create such an ambiance of immediacy that you may have to restrain yourself from breaking into applause. There's also great attention to detail. Demme ensures that no one misses Young's knowing glance to his wife Pegi, a backup singer here, during a rendition of the love song Harvest Moon or Young's hokey wave to the rafters after referencing country...
Honey, would you please pass me the wine, so I can cry into it?" As the bill for a dinner at L'Arpège in Paris was served up, its recipient couldn't restrain a shocked yelp ("$900 Canadian!"). His female companion, whose menu displayed no prices, had only been able to guess how much anything cost by her partner's cringes as she ordered. I cringed, too. French haute cuisine is frequently underwritten - and then written off as mugging at Sabatier knifepoint - by hapless tourists. Since the late 18th century, when the Revolution cooked the goose of French...