Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this chapter a little shorter; your description of that bitch Sarah certainly is funny, but I worry that your other student portraits might come off as nothing but a vehicle for you to get revenge for various college slights. Vendettas certainly are fun, but you need to exercise some restraint. After all, you are the one who is going to be a big star, and all of your former classmates at Harvard are going to be jealous of you, so there is no need for you to air so much dirty laundry...
...Democrats have had trouble getting accustomed to being part of a governing majority and felt free to treat any President like the opposition. "It takes an adjustment," admits Senate majority leader George Mitchell. "There's a substantial difference when the President is of your party. The necessary discipline and restraint are not in the tradition of the Democratic Party...
...those who had long carried the heavy burden. Such acts are far too rare in the presidency, but they are just as much a measure of honor. Bill Clinton enhanced himself as well as those who had braved the road to the South Lawn by the courage of his restraint...
...about our client, trying to damage his reputation in the industry. We have reason to believe these are the same wild stories Mr. Strickland came up with." In a motion to strike the complaint, Connolly denied slandering Seagal, and Spy joined him in accusing the star of attempting prior restraint of the article...
...There's something wrong," sex educator Sol Gordon once said, "with a country that says, 'Sex is dirty, save it for someone you love.' " But families at least agreed on a social standard that preached, if not practiced, the virtues of restraint and of linking sex to emotional commitment and marriage. "It used to be easy to say it's just wrong to have sex before marriage. You could expect churches to say that, adults from many walks of life to somehow communicate that," notes Peter Benson, president of Minneapolis-based Search Institute, a research organization specializing in child...