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...wage-price guidelines. Presidential aides promise to have an anti-inflation plan ready in a month or two. The indications are, however, that the Administration will do no more than set a highly general goal, call in labor and business leaders for pep talks and hope that they will restrain wage and price boosts...
...would like you to know that there are people who believe in righteousness (including modesty), which brings peace from God, and who oppose sin, which brings damnation and judgment. We are offended by ubiquitous displays of this type, and urge you, in your own area of influence, to restrain yourselves...
...will base his actions on the risk he is willing to take. Not surprisingly, his belief in the rational criminal leads Wilson to the idea of raising the cost relative to the benefit. When the criminal sees that an illegal act is too risky, Wilson reasons, he will restrain from the illicit activity...
...then to put the emphasis on tax reduction, particularly in the middle-income groups. Those people have been shortchanged. They think they deserve a break, and I think they do. We're going to fight for them. And if you restrain the spending, you can have that kind of tax reduction...
...drastic sea changes the word liberal has undergone. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it meant laissez-faire. One of the Commentary contributors, William F. Buckley, quotes Woodrow Wilson as saying that the history of liberalism is the history of man's efforts to restrain the growth of government. Franklin Roosevelt, of course, gave liberal its new meaning: the use of what has become Big Government to redress society's inequities. Herbert Hoover objected not only to F.D.R.'s policies but also to his theft of the word liberal. Barry Goldwater was the first presidential candidate...