Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Annual "bests" and "mosts" express a human instinct for putting things in order. This year's crop also reflects a shift from a time of ostentation to one of restraint, unease and do-goodism -- plus flashes of camp and cheekiness...
...from environmentalists, who have enjoyed great credibility. The debate over Big Green's pesticide provisions left many voters wondering whether environmental interest groups exaggerate for effect. Congressman Al Swift of Washington State says the environmental lobby in Congress has grown from a David into a Goliath without exercising the restraint that should come with its greatly expanded influence...
This is the first time lawyers recall the court's allowing a "prior restraint" order to block a news organization from publishing or broadcasting news. In almost all earlier cases, the Supreme Court has equated prior restraints with censorship and declared them unconstitutional. "Now we have the government supporting a gag order on material the government gathered," said Jane Kirtley, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "It's frightening." Warned CNN's counsel Floyd Abrams: "The risk of this decision is that courts will order more brief prior restraints. From a journalism perspective, even...
...staff fears that this decision will set a precedent of judicial restraint of American media. If CNN is prevented from airing tapes on the grounds that Noriega's right to a fair trial has been abridged, as this opinion reasons, then it is foreseeable that federal marshalls will march into America's newsrooms and pull stories with only the weakest of possibilities that it could damage right to a fair trial...