Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazines, for example, won't run ads from racist or hate groups. The people who sell access to the Internet, he believes, should start behaving the same way. "In effect," says Cooper, "this is a recognition that the Internet has come of age. We're not looking for prior restraint or to keep these guys off the Internet. We're saying, Adopt the same approach to the First Amendment that your brothers have done in traditional media...
...ACHIEVEMENT OF DEAD MAN Walking is quite a simple one: at its end you don't know where Tim Robbins, its writer-director, stands on the issue of capital punishment. Considering that there is no more tendentious topic available to a filmmaker, Robbins' restraint, his determination to explore the moral and psychological nuances of the relationship that develops between Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned to death for his participation in a heinous crime, and Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), who becomes his spiritual counselor in his final months, is exemplary...
...deal with the problem the U.S. faces today, it must accept a lesson that runs against the isolationist grain: alliances are essential. A task as big as, say, aligning China or Russia toward free markets, responsive government and strategic self-restraint will take consistent diplomacy from many countries working together for at least a generation. Building and managing an alliance to last that long will call for leadership more patient and forward thinking than the U.S. has commonly provided. But other countries are eager for it--though they may not always admit as much. "The U.S. is and should remain...
Republicans insist, however, that the economy needs a balanced budget in seven years, even if it causes pain. "The major, major difference between the President's budget and ours," Domenici said, "is the almost total lack of restraint on entitlements in the President's [program]." Concurred David Wyss, the chief financial economist at DRI/McGraw Hill: "If you do not get those cutbacks in entitlement programs, you're not going to get the budget balanced or keep it balanced...
Students coming to Drag Night paraded a range of ostentatious, glittering costumes that suspended all gender-determined sartorial restraint for two hours...