Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attorney general says that as governor he would maintain the financial restraint that the Weld administration has made its signature...
...generals, no strategy and no real fighting. The crackling of rifle fire and phantasmagoric skylines lit by tracer rounds coincided with scenes of civilians strolling normally or sitting in cafes. Scared politicians of assorted parties got together with Berisha to issue pleas for public restraint. For all the good they were doing, they might as well have yelled into the wind. Politicians had no credibility with slapped-together committees of insurgents, which in turn had no control over countless people newly empowered by Kalashnikovs...
...Scott Fitzgerald. "I want to say he's a presence," says Clark, referring to Fitzgerald. Indeed Fitzgerald's people are present in In the Deep Midwinter, the MacEwan family might have been the next generation of Gatsbys. Set in the 1950's, the novel is fraught with the restraint and repression associated with that...
Thank you, says Copeland, who put cheeseburger pizza on the Straya menu and says it's a sign of his restraint and good taste that he didn't put this restaurant "concept" farther up genteel St. Charles, "in the middle of antebellum homes." Copeland, who opened his first Straya in a suburb three years ago without complaint, hired some of the 200 employees for his new restaurant from the depressed neighborhood to the north of the restaurant...
...straight-forward case of Israeli and Palestinian national interests clashing. International law, the Oslo Accords, American law and precedent are clearly on the Israeli side. Yet President Clinton, a self-proclaimed friend of Israel, has rebuked Israel, not the Palestinians. It seems that the United States expects more restraint and abnegation of national interest from Israeli democracy than from Arafat's murderous dictatorship...