Word: restraint
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...those who want tomorrow's weather, not 1944's, the forecast will still run at the bottom of the screen. But Storm Stories' emotional tone--the stories include heart-tugging music and the occasional re-enactment--is a departure for a network best known for its buttoned-down restraint. Unlike many TV weathertainers, the Weather Channel's meteorologists--the men in car-salesman suits, the women in sensible sweaters--avoid cheerleading and hype; they don't make corny puns or brag about their gastric-bypass surgery. Even the plain logo looks like something from the '50s. So there's something...
...failed to shift Saddam. Whether the reasons for making that distinction is North Korea's infinitely more formidable ability to defend itself by inflicting pain on its neighbors or simply the fact that South Korea and Washington's other key allies in the region are insisting on U.S. restraint, that distinction could prove to be a tough sell to an American electorate resigned, but less-than gung-ho about invading Iraq...
With that posture--leaning forward, fists clenched--the Bush Administration has promised to set aside a longtime tradition of restraint in waging war, because the danger demands no less. Its members believe that the enemy is mobile and can't be deterred, the targets are soft and can't be protected, and the old rules of battle no longer apply. The war on terror is a war of annihilation, and the President's every instinct tells him that however divided America may be over policy or priorities, this is the only fight that matters...
...Great power in the world is as much about restraint as it is about coercion,” he said...
...Liberals are agnostic on America’s right to survive,” she said. “They are willing to live in an Orwellian stasis—counseling restraint, putting [confrontation] off for another...