Word: restraint
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...automakers, particularly Volkswagen, were threatening to move some of their production outside Germany altogether because of high costs. In the end, the union agreed to extend working hours without extra pay. That has been a boon to the whole industry--and the German economy. Reithofer acknowledges that the wage restraint "has been a fundamental contribution to making Germany competitive again...
...limiting campaign spending say it will draw a flood of corporate cash to TV spots pushing one candidate or another. But the decision is also very narrow, meaning it may well preserve the overall impact of McCain-Feingold and doesn't necessarily justify predictions of the end to spending restraint. As with the Bong Hits case, it also starts to show the ideological limits of the Roberts Court, where the President's two appointees, Roberts and Samuel Alito, are less open to sweeping legal change than their counterparts on the right, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...effect in the future. It could mean the cornerstones of constitutional law - the limits on presidential power and the precedents like Roe v. Wade - may survive the Roberts court, as Scalia and Thomas continue to thunder on the right while Roberts and Alito exercise the same relative restraint they have shown...
...restraint that violent Shi'ite factions showed early in the new U.S. military plan seems to be disappearing. As a result, the deterrence card has now been played, and the gamble appears to be lost, just as the last of the U.S. troops sent for the surge get into place. As of last month, 13,000 additional U.S. troops were deployed in Baghdad as part of the surge, which ultimately will bring the number of U.S. forces in Baghdad to some 30,000. Bergner says the last of the U.S. surge forces will be in place in about two weeks...
...took all my restraint not to explode with anger after reading the article on the Baghdad Country Club [May 7]. Cheers to all of the contract workers who get to enjoy themselves with cigars and cocktails after a long day of earning bloated salaries under the protection of allied troops. The contractors' fear of not having beer delivered is tremendously stressful and surely the need to unwind is well deserved. But they can rest assured that the Country Club is secure, thanks to the many young soldiers fighting beyond the walls of the Green Zone. Those soldiers, I would...