Word: restraint
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Appealing to other steelmakers for restraint, Johnson expressed hope that they "will not join this parade." Bethlehem insisted that its action, if adopted by other producers, would raise the cost of an automobile by only $12, a refrigerator by 720. Not so sanguine, the Administration estimated that across-the-board increases of the magnitude announced by Bethlehem would cost the nation's consumers $600 million, minimize the economy-cooling effects of the new federal income tax sur charge and, by raising prices of U.S. exports, further strain the nation's balance of payments...
...even offered them flowers and glasses of wine. In turn, the Russians played their accordions for the people, sang songs, kicked around a ball with the youngsters and even helped farmers to harvest their crops. The regime in Prague was unconcerned over this fraternization, indeed was proud of the restraint showed by its people. The fact was that the entire nation was eager to get rid of the troops as soon as possible; the flowers and wine constituted a shrewd Czechoslovak tactic to persuade the Russians that they have nothing to worry about...
...sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That's why," says a broker at Lehman Bros.' Wall Street area office, "I love to be invited to lunch uptown...
Washington's Patrick Murphy, 47, was criticized for not being tougher on rioters in the disturbances that followed the death of Martin Luther King. Yet Murphy's restraint not only kept down the death toll (only ten died) but also prevented a major outbreak from turning into a city-wide conflagration. In seven months, he has done more to modernize the creaky District force than previous directors did in years. Last week new guidelines were handed down to curb indiscriminate arrests for "disorderly conduct"; the President's riot panel discovered that just such arrests sparked many...
...dying shantytown, and their belongings were meticulously catalogued for later retrieval. Even the mules, finally arriving in their 13-wagon train from Mississippi, went to pasture donated by a Washingtonian. There was an abortive riot in the Washington ghetto. But the authorities-particularly Mayor Walter Washington-stuck to their restraint. Resurrection City's cost to Washington: $532,000, mostly for extra police...