Word: restraint
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...would run the federal show--had been settled for the time being. Fifteen minutes of Gene was no longer Heaven--especially since it followed interminable harangues by the likes of Richard Goodwin, Shirley MacLaine, and Michael Schwartz. Paul O'Dwyer's charming brogue and John Gilligan's verbal restraint were a bit more encouraging, though the feeling lurked that both were probable losers come November...
...with what he calls "Middle America," the mass of citizens who believed that Daley was right in ordering the demonstrators beaten. He concludes by questioning the privileges that the press has always assumed: ... those of us in the media would be wise to exercise a certain caution, a prudent restraint in pressing for a plenary indulgence to be in all places at all times as the agents of the sovereign public...
...Humphrey claims to support the rational recommendations of the Kerner report. In the light of his hair-trigger snaps of "shut up" to hecklers, I seriously question his capacity of restraint and better judgment, were he faced with the problem of dealing with violence and crime...
...before. Other Schiller ideas and slogans came in salvos. He junked the verbal Seelen-massagen (soul massages) that Erhard used to aim at German employers and unions. He substituted regular private sessions with business and labor at which he preaches "social symmetry," his way of describing wage and price restraint and equilibrium...
There are several reasons for the recovery. For all its drawbacks, Eshkol's policy of restraint has forced Israel's powerful labor unions to hold the wage line. In the months between the June war and the end of 1967, worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...