Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Decrying today's argumentative television shows, Matsuyama said the old classic American movies showed the value of "self-restraint, the spirit of self-sacrifice which once moved us all greatly but is now disdained in the law schools and business schools...
...risks in this trend are considerable: unlike sworn officers, most security guards are not required to inform suspects of their Miranda rights or to obey the Fourth Amendment's restraint on searches. Moreover, the trend toward privatization raises important public-policy issues. "What ever happened to equal protection for all?" asks Harvard criminologist Mark Moore. "If public policing can be bought, then the rich will receive more than the poor. In the end, the public force will erode into a poor people's force." And unless the industry cleans up its own procedures, even rich clients may find themselves...
...piece is ruined for the viewer if the cast and director make the mistake of reading too much into this lesser-known George Bernard Shaw masterpiece. Fortunately, the American Repertory Theater has, for once, refused to take itself too seriously, and its production of Misalliance reflects this admirable restraint. This is Shaw with the entertainment left...
...Congress that "[w]e will keep our commitments from South Vietnam to West Berlin." In that same speech, Johnson also said: "In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." By Stone's standards of historiography, that might be enough to prove that, say, Johnson was a restrained leader saddled with onerous commitments from a hardline predecessor. At the very least, how on earth did the conspirators know they were bringing in someone who would be more of a Cold Warrior...
...entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working today, is a master of restraint...