Word: restraint
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...Alps, they would not have been so high. Playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt noted that his country's vaunted neutrality "makes me think of a virgin who earns her living in a bordello but wants to remain chaste." Not surprisingly, the Swiss celebrated the septicentennial of their confederation this month with restraint...
...custodians of all this disarray are vulnerable as never before to censure, pressure and restraint from abroad. Mikhail Gorbachev wants and needs the approval and assistance of the West. When his friends George, Helmut and Francois urge him to call off the Black Beret commandos who are harassing the Balts, Gorbachev listens. In fact, he obeys. (Whether the Black Berets always obey him is another matter...
...model of restraint last week. The day after Bush spoke, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told the Israeli government that Washington would pick up most of the development cost for Israel's new antimissile missile, the Arrow. The U.S. is giving the Jewish state 10 used F-15 fighters and, said Cheney, will make sure the Israelis "maintain their qualitative edge." Cheney also said Israel has promised to store U.S. military equipment for American use in future emergencies, an arrangement Washington is negotiating with some of the gulf states as well...
...Love entered college in London with the intention of becoming a kindergarten teacher, but then began singing poetry she had written over tapes her cousins sent from America. Her debut album, Down to Earth, sends a message to women about trust, reconciliation and relationships -- all with an ease and restraint that might not have been possible in rap just a few years ago. "I don't try to be too heavy in my messages," says Love. "Too many rappers are too serious." In a radical break with rap tradition, Love actually smiles in her album photo...
...been mentioned as an ideal football coach (the Philadelphia Eagles) or university chancellor (Texas A&M) or business leader (Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca is batting his eyes). Van Poole, chief of the Republican Party in Schwarzkopf's home state of Florida, is exercising monumental restraint. "I thought I'd give him a couple of weeks," he says. The hope is to persuade the general to run against popular Democratic Senator Bob Graham. "I've not talked to Schwarzkopf directly, but through a third party," says Poole. "He's not said no." Others would let him skip the legislative spring training...