Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Israeli officials have followed Washington's directives with unprecedented restraint, knowing that any military move against Baghdad on their part would turn Saddam into a hero of the Arab masses, paint Israel as the aggressor and perhaps force several Arab allies now in the U.S. camp over to Saddam's side, or at least to the sidelines. Following a series of war games held by the general staff in an underground command bunker in the central part of the country, Israel's brass concluded that for now, the consequences of an Iraqi attack on Israel would be less severe than...
Jerusalem then moved its campaign to New York City, where St. Martin's Press had begun shipping the book to stores last week. A judge granted an order blocking publication, which First Amendment experts immediately labeled an invalid exercise of prior restraint. A four-judge appeals panel promptly agreed, lifting the order the next day and noting that since books had been shipped to 1,500 wholesalers, suppression was a practical impossibility. By the end of the week, a tidal wave of new orders prompted St. Martin's to + increase the print run to 200,000, practically guaranteeing that...
...despite their restraint and cultivated sense of decorum, they go all out at Christmas, when Wang says the the economics lounge "looked like a discotheque...
...asking the oil companies to do their fair share. They should show restraint, and not abuse today's uncertainties to raise prices...
...President's call for restraint came amid a fast-rising tide of public wrath toward the oil industry. Michigan Governor James Blanchard accused oil companies of war profiteering, a politically loaded charge rarely leveled since World War II. On Capitol Hill last week, congressional committees hastily convened hearings to investigate allegations of price gouging and even price fixing. According to a House estimate, the oil industry raked in a $1 billion windfall in the first week after the Iraqi invasion...