Word: restraint
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...remdus- trialization" would relay not only supply-side whimsy, but explicit federal allocation of capital. A renovated Reconstruction Finance Corporation would direct huge subsidies to promising growth industries and bail out a few more important declining industries. In both cases, however, reindustrialization funds depend on workers agreeing to wage restraint. And according to Business Week, "destabilizing" goals such as affirmative action and environmental repair must be deferred, so as not to upset the "social compact...
...most of the nation, politics today has become a slick package of computer predictions, gallup polls and flashy ad campaigns. But none of these innovations have yet invaded Martin County, Kentucky, and politics there proceed with a familiarly and lack of restraint that has changed little in remembered years...
...RECENT STRIKES and demonstrations in the territories once again raise questions about the restraint--or lack thereof--on the part of security forces. Each dead Palestinian youth merely adds to Arab indignation. Indeed, Israeli strong-arm tactics in the occupied lands help to perpetuate a cycle of violence and counter-violence that seems to have...
Dashing off a letter in high dudgeon can be good for the nerves and soul. Not sending it can be even better. Self-restraint ennobles outrage. The aggrieved correspondent can have all the fun of venting strong feelings, coupled with a gratifying sense of condescension toward the addressee. There, but for the grace of the writer, goes one angry and insulted...
...outstanding reputation in judicial circles," but notes of Democracy and Distrust. "Like a lot of writing by scholastics it doesn't get close enough to the practicality that judges have to face," He adds, "I know (Ely's) got a lot of fine distinctions about his judicial restraint, but it's that kind of line-drawing that makes judges turn...