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Representative Michael J. Harrington, Democratic. Representative from Massachusetts, has brought suit in the U.S. courts to bring out these activities publicly and restrain the CIA from engaging further in such entirely illegal procedures...
...Harriet Kittner, who doubles as Tom Mix, the bartender, and Clementine, the supposedly dead heiress, lacks the lines to develop her comic expertise. As Clementine, the theoretical heroine who falls short of that role because the authors spent so much time developing the surfelt of leading characters. Kittner must restrain her comic abilities. She supplants here talent with an out-of-character solemnity that makes the audience feel gypped out of seeing the only female comic performance in the play...
...turbulent sea of inflation. We must prevent people like this from becoming resentful of the institution that leads them." For some M.P.s, however, the reaction of Britain's housewives was of less concern than the reaction of Britain's labor unions, which have been asked to restrain demands for inflationary wage increases voluntarily in keeping with the government's vaunted "social contract." Having postponed voting themselves a salary hike in order to set a good example for the country, many M.P.s had hoped that the monarchy would follow a similar course...
Even pragmatic considerations could argue against the current world arms-buying binge. U.C.L.A. Political Scientist Roman Kolkowicz warns that "it is very dangerous to move substantial quantities of fairly sophisticated weapons into the hands of unstable political-military elites, whose ability to restrain their fantasies and appetites is weak at best...
...also among the most ardent believers in the necessity of conserving basic materials, both natural and manmade. Says Britain's Martin Roberts, chief industrial designer for the successful chain of Habitat stores, which offer tasteful, basic home furnishings: "With the world as it is now, we have to restrain ourselves. We have to design to price and to process. People are going to want things that do the job well and last and look good all at the same time." In a way, it would all sound a bit familiar to the late Mies van der Rohe. Less, with...