Word: restraining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...PRISON GUARDS Microscopic implants will restrain convicts from engaging in criminal activity. The sensors will require lots of fine tuning, though--we wouldn't want an aggressive telemarketer getting zapped, would...
...beauty of this approach is that Microsoft would have leeway to develop its operating system as it sees fit, according to what the market wants. It could integrate a browser or anything else. But the dynamics of the market would restrain it. It couldn't leverage Microsoft Word and Office Suite to protect a monopoly in the operating system, so competing operating platforms could spring up. And during a transition phase, there would be rules allowing computer makers and developers to promote competition so that the best products...
...Licensing Windows to multiple independent providers, while encouraging creative additions to the operating system by many companies, raises the danger of a "version fork" and the creation of mutually incompatible operating systems. Despite these risks, a strong structural remedy seems more appropriate to the offense and more likely to restrain anticompetitive action by Microsoft in the future...
...Miami family and their backers may be calling the government's bluff, on the assumption that fear of a potentially violent confrontation with the Cuban exile activists guarding Lazaro Gonzalez's home - who have vowed to die before allowing the boy to leave - may restrain the government from going in and collecting Elian. "Remember, Al Gore needs Florida votes," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "From what we've see so far, the Clinton administration has little stomach for enforcing its decision to return Elian to Cuba." The government has threatened to revoke Elian's parole status by Thursday...
...though it seems anti-intuitive for Harvard not to want to be the first (and best) in all areas, this particular situation calls for us to restrain our competitive nature. Before we devote our time and resources to developing a curriculum that with minimal benefit to students or Faculty, it would be better to wait and let the other universities work out the kinks in the system...