Word: restrains
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...through the streets on occasion, but U.S. intelligence experts believe that they have rarely, if ever, been employed. Peking has sent several divisions of troops to Canton to keep order, but the best intelligence estimates are that they have carefully avoided choosing sides, and are using their presence to restrain both sides...
...detailed plans of the march. On the basis of the informant's greatly embellished version of PAC's plans, the Century Corporation's lawyers were able to obtain a ten-point injunction from a municipal judge on the morning of 23 June, which ordered the marchers to "restrain" from doing the ten things listed on the injunction. The injunction order was handed to Irving Sarnoff, PAC chairman, at the rally before the march began...
...influence ABC's public-affairs programming. Justice's other key objections are that the merger would result in a cash drain away from already-strapped ABC (both companies insist that, on the contrary, ITT would be supplying the network with fresh capital) and that it would restrain competition...
...worst roasting of her career. The London Times described Sandy and Kim Stanley, who played another of the sisters, as "ludicrous and painful." Zeroing in on Sandy's speech ("I-er-I-ah"), Critic Bernard Levin of the Daily Mail reported that "I could barely restrain myself from screaming aloud with the pain of my throbbing nerves." Worse, Sandy was bypassed for the screen versions of her Broadway hits. That hurt, though neither Barbara Harris in A Thousand Clowns nor Jane Fonda in Any Wednesday quite matched Sandy's original interpretation...
...Citizen, he said, had been on the "brink of death," and the agreement with the Star had been a "lifesaving device." Jack Howard, president of Scripps-Howard, a chain with a total of seven joint operating agreements, agreed. The effect of the bill, he said, is not to "restrain competition but to preserve it to the fullest extent possible, to preserve two or more healthy papers where there otherwise would be only...