Word: restraint
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...they appear to have the support of a lot of local people. So the Macedonians will either have to use overwhelming force to restore control over the town, which would risk serious casualties on both sides in heavy street fighting - and the West is urging them to show restraint - or else they'll simply have to accept the situation that they've lost a piece of territory and concentrate on preventing similar things from happening elsewhere in Western Macedonia where there is a large Albanian population...
...shoes, they parade before the judges. Before launching into song, groups take turns lining up to face the crowd, marching in place to set the rhythms and humming their melodies. With coyly lifted pants legs, they beat time with their feet, followed by a waist-high kick. Their coiled restraint hints at martial Zulu moves. Much in evidence to an American observer are the familiar echoes of old Hollywood vaudeville movies and the African-American companies that toured South Africa more than a century ago, bringing both step-dance movements and spirituals. During the concert, virtuoso performers nonchalantly step from...
Clinton actually showed restraint with the pardons by not giving one to Michael Milken, Jonathan Pollard, Webb Hubbell and Ol' Dirty Bastard. And, if he had wanted, he could have fought to pardon himself. And that's the greatest pardon...
...Because it's the size that makes the sales pitch. Tuesday night is when Bush is going to try to pull a Reagan on a country and a Congress that may be surprised what his budget plan boils down to. Not compassion, exactly - that was Clinton's thing - but restraint. Restraining the growth of the federal government in time of surpluses. Make Washington eat its vegetables; let the people eat steak...
...course, Clinton is no good to the Democrats now, and this year it's a Republican in the bully pulpit again. Bush will take to the Teleprompter in economic times that are threatening to turn tough, and he'll be selling restraint of government - and some rich-men's rebates - instead of New Deal sympathies. He's not the salesman Bill Clinton was, but then again neither are Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, and the great thing about American politics is that viewers will have to choose one or the other...