Word: restraint
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...within the Administration argue that the U.S.S.R. has repeatedly violated detente's main charter, the "Basic Principles of Relations" between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at their Moscow summit in May of 1972. This communique stated that the two superpowers "will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations" and that "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense...
...destabilizing at a time when Pakistan appears to be expanding its nuclear potential, when Israel and even Japan evidently have nuclear weapons or at least the potential of building these, and which I think even of countries such as Libya and Iraq which would see no need to exercise restraint if the Soviet Union cannot agree on minimal restraint...
Throughout her visit, Thatcher repeatedly praised Carter and the American people for their restraint; Europe, after all, is concerned that U.S. patience may crack and lead to retaliatory action that would create even greater problems. "Our admiration," she said, "goes to the American people for their patience and wisdom and self-control," which of course was a plea for continued coolness...
...however. Christie's, closely followed in London by Sotheby's, in 1975 tacked a 10% buyer's premium on all sales (in addition to the average 10% commission charged the seller). English dealers with American backing sued the two firms for collusion and restraint of trade. The case will not even come to trial for an other year; in the U.S., where the same surcharge has been levied, a dealer's suit may be played all over again...
...force the pieces, he warned himself. Store them away. Patience. But how to be patient when he had so little time? ... All his professional life, it seemed to Smiley, he had listened to similar verbal antics signalling supposedly great changes in Whitehall doctrine; signalling restraint, self-denial, always another reason for doing nothing. He had watched Whitehall's skirts go up, and come down again, her belts being tightened, loosened, tightened. He had been the witness, or victim-or even reluctant prophet-of such spurious cults as lateralism, parallelism, separatism, operational devolution, and now, if he remembered Lacon...