Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restraint was less apparent in recent years, perhaps because Ashe knew that so much needed to be done in so little time. Referring to the violence that shattered Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict, he preferred to call it a "revolt," knowing full well that the word expressed a more powerful image of response to racial repression than the term most commonly used, "riot." On the other hand, he earned the outrage of many black coaches and educators by supporting a proposition that requires minimum standards of academic performance in exchange for athletic eligibility. Many African- American athletes fell...
...FRAMED EPIGRAM IN COLIN POWell's office is from the Greek historian Thucydides. "Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most." Restraint used to be the hallmark of Powell's own style as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Opposed though he was to using force against Saddam Hussein, he was careful in White House meetings before the war never to confront George Bush directly on the issue. But in his blunt dealings with the Clinton Administration over gays in the military and cutbacks in U.S. forces, Powell has been notably less restrained. The change has heated...
...more than a last-minute potshot at his most intransigent rival. He wanted to send a message to Saddam that even though he is about to leave office, the Gulf War coalition remains firm in its demand that Iraq comply with U.N. resolutions. Given the military options available, the restraint of the operation shows the pains Bush took to ensure that his key allies, Britain and France, would sign on and to engage the support of the entire U.N. Security Council. By not overreacting to an escalating series of provocations by Saddam, the Western leaders reassured their electorates that they...
...remembered as really, really bad. Bush, also a really bad president, would like at least to be considered merely bad. American presidents can't help but make history, and the knowledge that his grandchildren will read about Iran-Contra, wonder why their grandfather did nothing to encourage Iraqi restraint before the Gulf War, and bear the brunt of borrow-and-spend economics probably bothers Bush...
Wilde, a seasoned war correspondent who has been dodging bullets since the French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing...