Word: restraint
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Agnew praises the "hard hats" for defending "the values of self-reliance and hard work, of modesty and self-restraint and respect both for our parents and for tradition, a belief in God, and a conviction that there are times when we should fight a war in order that future generations might be free...
...atomic monopoly and might theoretically have challenged Soviet expansion by interposing a threat of nuclear bombing. Stalin, of course, might have chosen to respond by dispatching the giant Red Army to overrun a then poorly defended Europe. But Halle suggests a broader pragmatism in American restraint: the U.S. could not and did not attempt any such nuclear blackmail because it might have threatened "the whole fabric of world order...
...asking the police to try to do this reasonably. with restraint and with human dignity." he added...
...administrations, beginning with the inflation-balance of payments crisis of the Kennedy Administration, have chosen to attempt the same currency stabilizing process by a subtler route: through a rising rate of wage taxation, while permitting free-floating collective bargaining, tempered with the social restraint of conditioned, "captured" labor movement leadership...
...administration for illustration. Is the Mayor's current rent re-adjustment plan (netting an immediate 15-25 per cent rent increase) coherent with his parallel suggestions for wage and price controls? Is the Mayor willing to halve the price of housing in return for some freely agreed upon wage restraint? In that way, it is possible to know, in each specific case, just where things stand...