Word: restraint
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...book as spare and a style as poignant in its restraint as many of the lives she describes, Curtin brings old folks out of the blurred social shadows. She does not love them all. She finds one woman she met in New York City "a real old bitch, hating herself and the world with intensity...
...United States Supreme Court had ruled by a 6-3 majority that government agencies could not prevent publication of the "top-secret" Pentagon Papers, Newsweek magazine ran a banner headline on its cover, "Victory for the Press." The Court's decision was based on First Amendment guarantees against prior restraint of newspapers by the government, and on the public's right to know. Newsweek, surveying the respective positions of the litigants in the case, pronounced: "Few clearer gauges of the sanctity of the First Amendment freedoms, few plainer demonstrations of the openness of American society, could be imagined than...
...always cloud ed those earlier meetings and Washing ton is anxious to see what new progress can be made now that the war is ending. One topic likely to be discussed is the amount of military aid that China intends to give Hanoi; Nixon has appealed for "restraint" by both China and Russia. The touchy issue of U.S. ties with Taiwan will also emerge, but a U.S. official notes that Peking's lead ers have been "more relaxed recently on that point. They feel time is on their side...
Panic. Like the President, the CEA stressed the need for economic restraint in order to prevent greater inflation. It said that the pace of the nation's boom should be slowed in the second half of the year by a combination of budget hold-downs and a less rapid expansion of money supply. Still, its projections for the full year add up to a powerful advance in every sector: gross national product should rise about $115 billion, to $1,267 billion; real growth of 6¼% will top even the 6½% of 1972; inflation will be no higher...
...early handling of labor problems in the construction trades, Dunlop was picked by the President to head a tripartite panel formed by the Administration early in 1971 to hammer down the grossly inflationary settlements that then prevailed in the building industry. He cannily persuaded union leaders that by exercising restraint, they could win back power from increasingly militant local leaders-and win back jobs for union members, who had been losing them to lower-paid, unorganized workers. He has been frequently criticized for running a secret, autocratic outfit, but the results are impressive: construction pay increases dropped from...