Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that makes the most--and generally the worst--of any disappointment, much less grief, in which people weep lavishly at the drop of a stock market, and the tendency of television is to devote a special to the heartbreak of psoriasis, here was decent, neoclassical, proper restraint...
...best friends are drunk people. But if you're going to be an asshole when you're drunk, you should be strong enough to act like that when you're fully in control of yourself. Don't hide behind excuses of drunkenness to later explain your lack of restraint, what-ever the transgression may be, from the merely obnoxious to the egregiously criminal...
...Berlin Symphony was directed on Sunday by Joseph Silverstein, who currently heads the Utah Symphony. An unusually liberal expression of enthusiasm in the conductor was immediately apparent; his smiles were a welcome divergence from the stoic grimaces of most highly-acclaimed conductors. Also absent was any indication of restraint within the orchestra; the woodwinds leapt directly into Brahms' Variations on a theme by Haydn only a few moments after Silverstein took his position at the front of the stage...
Noah blames his restraint on an unspoken rule against entryway relationships, a rule which reflects the attitude that romance can be dangerous. At the same time, he admits that "it's easier to make a goddess out of one girl than it is to make something work with a real girl here on Planet Harvard." He sheepishly adds, "I guess I'm just not ready yet to leave the security of my romantic fantasy-land and enter the world of real relationships. Relationships are after all, always much less certain and potentially devastating to both people...
...much as he did his first five years. Last month the Arizona Republic uncovered a second damning report by a U.S. Department of Justice consultant who condemned the use of restraint chairs, pepper spray, alleged hog-tying and the use of "unprovoked" and "unjustified" force...