Word: restraint
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With the 1984 election looming and steelmakers screaming for relief, the Reagan Administration required foreign competitors to enter into "voluntary restraint agreements" aimed at reducing their share of the U.S. market to mid-'70s levels for a period of five years. Nonetheless, many experts doubt that foreign competition was the cause of the steel industry's woes or that protectionism is the cure...
...book's no-nonsense tone is particularly effective in treating some of the delicate subjects that surround the recent arrival of women in the executive suite. A pregnant employee is advised to exercise restraint in publicly describing her physical condition. Baldrige approvingly quotes a woman who proclaims that "a daily report on varicose veins is enough to put women back at least 3,000 years." At the same time, men are counseled not to bombard a pregnant colleague with questions like "Are you going to stop working?" and "If you're coming back, when will you?" On sexual harassment, Baldrige...
...wholesale elimination of the divestment organization at Harvard, we have an example ready to hand of the damage done when those in power move against the very leaders who could do the most to resolve a potentionally explosive situation. The South African government has shown none of the restraint that we expect from Harvard and other American universities; while we have waited for the CRR's decision, Botha's government has lauched an unprecedented crackdown on leaders of internal dissent movements--especially more moderate leaders. As increasing numbers of committed non-violent dissenters are silenced, the regime has made...
...freedom of their professors and students to teach and learn as they think best. Over the years, we have gradually persuaded outside groups, including corporations, not to try to use financial leverage to impose their views upon our campuses. We cannot expect these organizations to continue exercising such restraint if we insist on resorting to boycotts in an effort to impose our will on them. Once powerful groups in the society feel free to use economic sanctions to force their opinions on others, universities are bound to lose heavily in the process...
...this country but also outside of it, and we are asking ourselves again and again if (the decline in relations) is somehow connected with our actions. But what is there that we can reproach ourselves with in this context? In this critical situation Moscow is trying to practice restraint in its pronouncements about the U.S.; it is not resorting to anti-American campaigns, nor is it fomenting hatred for your country. We believe it very important that even in times of political aggravation the feeling of traditional respect harbored by the Soviet people for the American people should...