Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech Thursday to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Administration and Finance Secretary Peter Nessen said spending restraint is still needed to keep the state from falling back into a fiscal mess...
Amid the sudden-death dealmaking of the past decade, the world of banking seemed like an island of restraint. But recently the industry has come down with a case of can-you-top-this fever. The latest combination is the largest in banking history, the merger of San Francisco-based BankAmerica with its smaller Los Angeles rival, Security Pacific. With $193 billion in assets, the enlarged BankAmerica will rank a close second to New York's Citicorp among U.S. banks...
...especially for his proposed cure, Lederman was not immediately overwhelmed by acclaim -- either from fellow scientists or from Congress. The Bush Administration had already requested a generous increase in the science budget, critics noted. Lederman's call for a doubling of financial support at a time of severe budgetary restraint, they charged, made scientists seem petty and self-serving and suggested that they are out of touch with the country's political realities. In fact, only last year congressional budgeteers agreed to limit spending growth for domestic discretionary funding, in effect making science a "zero-sum" category. This meant that...
...Alps, they would not have been so high. Playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt noted that his country's vaunted neutrality "makes me think of a virgin who earns her living in a bordello but wants to remain chaste." Not surprisingly, the Swiss celebrated the septicentennial of their confederation this month with restraint...
...reject the piece as an unwarranted invasion of privacy. Last week the same editors permitted a Voice columnist to summarize the allegations, complete with the official's name. The rationale for the turnaround: the man's identity had been so widely circulated by other news organizations that continued restraint would have been "a futile exercise...