Word: restraint
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Healey did make a plea for further wage restraint. He tentatively promised more tax cuts and spending increases next spring?but only if unions adhere to the 10% wage guideline. Even if they do, some economists worry, the Labor government in its rush to secure victory at the polls may spur a new round of inflationary consumer spending. Labor Party leaders said at Brighton that Britain ought to spend North Sea revenues to modernize its industry and build new income-producing businesses. By giving most of its goodies to consumers, this minibudget goes in the opposite direction...
...army is in a very difficult position in Ulster. It may be an impossible situation. It may be that no other army could have conducted itself better, or with more restraint. But whatever the case may be, the army's operations have had disastrous consequences...
...disposal, musical director and piantist Dan Ullman achieves a surprising spectrum of moods with the score. Except for the touching ballad "Try to Remember," the songs are musically undistinguished. Still, the musical numbers are the strong points of the show. Matt and Luisa's closing duet, staged with admirable restraint, nearly redeems the dialogue that precedes it--and it would completely if Schmidt and Jones didn't feel obligated to insert El Gallo at the end with another substanceless speech...
...Houdini's specter to pop up somewhere on Halloween, among the trick or treaters. For certainly, Houdini was not a man who could easily be forgotten. No jail cell could hold him, no locks or chains could confine him. Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands watching...
...scene portraying the murder of Short Eyes receives some careless treatment; Young stands guilty here for demonstrating precious little restraint in depicting the grisly slashing of Short Eyes's neck. And the film concludes by simply reversing the direction taken by the camera at the outset of the movie, this time following a young Puerto Rican out of the prison amidst jeers from his abandoned lovers in the penitentiary. Crafted for a theater's stage, Short Eyes as a movie remains a gut-wrenching work to watch, and despite its flaws, the promise shown by Pinero's script should make...