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...have ever drooled over the items in the Hold Everything catalog, restrain yourself. According to Ellen Langan, the $100-an-hour Seattle whiz who streamlined the Unguez bedroom, overly elaborate storage systems are part of the problem. "There are too many choices!" she says. "Going out and buying more plastic bins isn't going to do it for you." Instead kids need to learn to cut back early on, by thinking, for instance: Now that my birthday is coming, which toys will I give away to make room for more...
...need to ascertain what lies behind Putin's Cheshire-cat smile - because the immediate future of Bush's prized missile defense scheme may be decided by the Russian leader. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle sounded notice Thursday that his party would use its control of the Senate to restrain the administration from acting unilaterally - and on missile defense that means negotiating an agreement with the Russians...
...even for the notoriously hawkish Sharon, the options are limited. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister finds himself in the unusual position of having to restrain hawks in his cabinet and security forces (as well as his challenger for the party leadership, Benjamin Netanyahu) who are urging an all-out offensive designed to destroy the Palestinian Authority and force the PLO leadership back into exile. Sharon knows this would seriously jeopardize Israel's international position, and could even irrevocably destabilize its relations with its Arab neighbors. And the result would simply be to clear the playing field of those Palestinian leaders...
...somewhat hypothetical. So despite President Bush's oddly New Democratic offer to share a little of the NMD pork with Russia's arms industry, Moscow is likely to dig in its heels against any abrogation of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, more confident now that the Senate will restrain Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from any precipitous rush to tear up the treaty and build a missile shield...
...inquiry reflects a widening drive by Washington to restrain the relentless rise of prescription prices, which remain the fastest-growing component of America's $1.3 trillion health-care bill. The action is on two fronts. The FTC, for its part, is going after brand-name drug companies that seek to block cheaper, copycat generic drugs from the marketplace. At the same time, a bipartisan duo of congressional lawmakers is pushing legislation designed to restrict those anticompetitive tactics and speed up government approval of generic medicines...