Word: restraint
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...under a Democratic Administration and, in the very short run, an average level of unemployment a little higher under a Republican Administration. Over the longer pull, I would argue that unemployment would be lower with the Republicans. They are likely to avoid a stop-go policy of stimulus and restraint-that is, they would tinker less with the economy...
...twilight and toward the beckoning cameras of prime television time to report to Congress and the people. He had returned from the camp of the enemy bearing spoils of peace rather than war, but he did not speak in terms of triumph. Confident and businesslike, he displayed a rare restraint, claiming only that his trip to Moscow was "the beginning of a process that can lead to a lasting peace." Appropriate to the achievement, it was the most effective speech of his presidency...
Dour Mood. Perhaps inevitably, Protestant militants were infuriated by Whitelaw's strategy of restraint. They demanded that the barricades be torn down. To force Whitelaw's hand, masked members of the Ulster Defense Association, a militant Protestant organization, hijacked cars and used them to create a 24-hour barricade around the Protestant Woodvale district of Belfast. Unless Whitelaw sent his troops into the Bogside, declared the U.D.A., the Protestants would surround their areas with permanent barricades also...
East and Gulf Coast union leaders will meet this week to weigh whether to walk off the job. If they do, the West Coast dockers have promised to join, tying up all U.S. ports. Such a crisis seems unlikely, given the workers' mood. Indeed, there is evidence of restraint elsewhere in shipping. Last month the National Maritime Union, which speaks for 15,000 merchant seamen, agreed to a three-year contract with increases less than half as big as the dockers collected. The seamen apparently know that if they do not rein in their wage demands, they may continue...
...face of nuclear disaster, we too pray that China and the Soviet Union will exercise restraint. But from the American people, we hope for the opposite. Critics of the President and his war policy have been too restrained for too long. As Nixon revs up the war machine and veers toward the abyss, we must place ourselves in his path. We must force the slaughter to a halt...