Word: restraint
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...mainstay of the lobbying industry. And there is little money to spend anyway, so Bush might as well retool himself as a fearless budget cop. "Listen, we got a lot of people in Washington who preach fiscal discipline, and then they go on to vote against spending restraint," Bush told the Economic Club of Chicago just after New Year...
Even Bush's supporters criticize his lack of fiscal restraint. They look with dismay at figures showing that the federal workforce of about 2.7 million is roughly the same size it was at the beginning of President Bill Clinton's second term. And they point out that Bush has not vetoed a single bill since taking office. "It's hard to veto something from a Congress dominated by your own party," says Murray Weidenbaum, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, "but Bush should have been tougher on the spending side. That's been...
...celebre for activists on Michigan’s campus. One thing is for sure, though: whatever decision the DRB does make about Pepsi will be no less arbitrary and no more fact-based than the one it made about Coke. We can only hope other universities will exercise more restraint...
...years earlier, in an interview with The Crimson just after his appointment as Harvard’s president, Summers offered a note of caution from his career at the U.S. Treasury.“You learned very quickly that the right way to handle things was to speak with restraint,” he said. “Being provocative and interesting wasn’t always good.” —Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached at seward@fas.harvard.edu...
...operation--and particularly Bush's decision to bypass the generally amenable Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authorization--has drawn fire not only from liberal Democrats but also from some of the most conservative in Bush's party, in which government restraint is a fundamental precept. "There is a test of Republicans on this," says activist Grover Norquist, normally a White House ally. "The country will let you get away with this in the wake of 9/11, but that doesn't make it right." And even if Republicans are prepared to bless Bush's program, they know it theoretically would have...