Word: restraint
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...movies--a look and a kiss. It usually sufficed, but not when homicide was involved. Nicholson's bestial portrayal, with the re-inserted punching and humping, helps explain his character's otherwise condemnable acts. He doesn't want to kill the old Greek; he has to. Logic, morals, and restraint are out. Survival of the fiercest reigns...
...good that such weapons will be used and Armageddon will be triggered. The trouble with basing a defense on an ultimate deterrent is that only one failure of deterrence will leave the world in ashes. Given the long history of human folly, it would be silly to expect such restraint to last for 500,000,000 years, or even...
Echoing Walesa's calls for restraint, Solidarity's national presidium telexed union locals at week's end to demand a halt to wildcat strikes. But the protests continued to spread. In the city of Zyrardow, near Warsaw, 12,000 textile workers entered the third week of a sit-in to demand more food. In Zielona Gora province, 150,000 workers continued their week-old strike to protest the firing of a local Solidarity farm manager. In Tarnobrzeg province, 180,000 stayed off the job because of inadequate food supplies. And in southern Sosnowiec, near Katowice, angry miners...
...save $50 to $60 in gasoline bills over the life of the car. Automakers were also cheered last week when the Administration took another deregulatory step that they have urged, and scrapped the requirement that 1983-model cars come equipped with either automatic seat belts or so-called passive restraint airbags that inflate upon impact and protect passengers in crashes...
...policy became riddled with exceptions: AW ACS were promised to Iran, F-15s were sold to Saudi Arabia, and F-5Es to Egypt. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the Carter Administration's policy of restraint was largely forgotten...