Word: restraint
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...hijacker on Sept. 11, 2001. If he had had his way, United Airlines Flight 93 would have plummeted into the White House or the Capitol. If your article was intended to show the U.S.'s abuse of power, you picked the wrong case study. The U.S. has demonstrated incredible restraint with that terrorist...
...their staffs and each other farewell with a glass of champagne. Before heading off to brief the heads of the Soviets' East bloc satellites, assembled in Prague, Gorbachev managed to get in a few parting propaganda points at an unusual 1½-hour press conference. He sternly warned that "all restraint will be blown to the winds" in nuclear competition unless the U.S. pulls back from its antimissile defense efforts...
...imagery in Geneva last week was not that two men were meeting at the summit--that is, at the peak of personal and national power--but that they were, for nearly five hours, meeting off to one side alone. Their apparent personal rapport, or at least civility and restraint, made the meeting a symbolic success. But on the most important issue confronting them, controlling the arsenals of nuclear weapons, there is no assurance that the "fresh start" and "momentum" they spoke about will actually lead anywhere. Not only was there no resolution of the basic issues dividing the two sides...
...Department of Transportation ruled that air bags, or some form of passive restraint system, would be required safety equipment on all new cars sold in the U.S. by 1990. But in a concession to the U.S. auto industry, which strongly opposes air bags as too expensive, Washington kept the door open for conventional seat belts. If two-thirds of the U.S. population were covered by buckle-up laws by April 1989, said Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, the air-bag rule could be dropped...
...restraint soon ended. In November, even before Wallis Simpson's second divorce was final, the King informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry her. Baldwin vowed to resign rather than allow an American divorcée to become Queen; he also argued that tradition did not permit a morganatic marriage, in which she would not assume royal prerogatives...