Word: restraint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...temping to applaud McCain's restraint. Picking on Clinton - often in personal, even crude ways - has practically become an official Republican party plank. Rudy Giuliani regularly mocks Clinton's voice, and when Mitt Romney's campaign playbook was leaked to the crowd, it contained a proposal to link Clinton to the thing Americans used to hate more than anything: France...
...despite the fear, the end is not, in fact, nigh. After an orgy of excesses in the credit and housing markets, a measure of sobriety and restraint may have a useful cleansing effect. That said, tremendous risks remain - not least a mounting threat of a U.S. recession. Surveying this treacherous landscape, Paul Donovan, a global economist at UBS, predicts: "It's going to be very unpleasant but it's not a disaster...
...ignite a larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa. Last week, Ban Ki-Moon expressed serious concern about the military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, while State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to pull back troops from key border areas and use "maximum restraint" to avert...
...talents to make a great record. Which is a fallacy people have about A.D.D. musicians in general. Creating consistently good albums is just not something that post-1987 Prince, Robert Pollard, or Lil’ Wayne does. These artists are incapable of editing themselves, of any kind of self-restraint; it’s just a condition of their artistic temperament, and it’s something we, as listeners, have to accept. “Rock N Roll” ultimately benefits from that quick-sketch approach and ends up being above par for Adams’ discography. It?...
...however, are not the problem, as the editorial implies, and claims about the diminishing quality of hires are altogether false, as is the speculation linking the quality of instruction to “tightened spending within the program’s budget.” The measures of fiscal restraint undertaken in the past two months, primarily around social events spending, extra compensation practices, and publication costs, have had nothing to do with salaries or hiring...