Word: restraint
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...obligations, I was able to do—for a sustained period—what is all but impossible at Harvard: relax.Instead of jogging through the Yard to get to section on time, my friends and I hiked through the woods with the impending sunset as our only time restraint. We started making merry not when we were done watching the previous week’s lectures on tape, but when there were no more dishes to wash.Once during the weekend, my cell phone rang. So I turned it off.Last spring, there was much fuss made about a survey...
...Bison ground game, and the backup Bucknell punter Ryan Korn—who assumed the role after the starter Phil Azarik came down with mononucleosis—will probably pull a hamstring cleaning up after the three-and-outs. If the Quakers so desired, they could win by 50. Restraint and sportsmanship could cut that number almost in half, but Penn will easily cover the points...
...effective, olfactory and acoustic assaults must be subtle. "If you make these things feel like advertising, that you're doing this to affect behavior, you've failed," says Peter Dixon of brand consultancy Lippincott Mercer, which is working with Samsung and Hyatt Place. In other words, exercising restraint just makes sense...
...which degenerated into an artificially clever, pop-saturated riff on the anxieties of being twentysomething, and cast a shadow over her early successes. She still can't resist dotting the pages with inside references to everything from Tupac Shakur to Harold Bloom. But this time she shows greater restraint - and self-awareness. In the past, Smith's chief flaw was similar to that of Zora Belsey, Howard's ambitious daughter, a sophomore at his university, who tries too hard to show off her literary cool. Through Zora, Smith now pokes fun at this fault. The girl's cringeworthy attempts...
...weapons is ironic, since the U.S. is the only country to date that has deliberately used atomic bombs against civilians. Iran and North Korea do not scare me. The U.S. does. Christina M. Gebbia Valencia, Spain The world would have seen another mushroom cloud but for the politics of restraint and the memory of Hiroshima and its victims. But with the shift from cold war conflicts to unconventional suicide bombings and the quest by Middle Eastern countries for nuclear arms, are sufficient international measures being put in place to avert another atomic holocaust? Darlington Owhoji Abuja, Nigeria