Word: restraint
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Pleading for "the most rigorous restraint," Johnson asked business and the unions to slow the wage-price cycle. Wage settlements, he said, must be reduced voluntarily from last year's 5.5% average. Where possible, extra costs must not be passed to consumers. On the international side, he urged approval of his program for reducing the balance of payments deficit...
...Richard M. Nixon's noisy exit from elective politics in 1962 was a classic example of gracelessness, his re-entry last week was the very model of dignified restraint. In fact, about the only surprise in his announcement that he was a candidate for President was its manner...
Arise, arise he cried so loud in a voice without restraint...
...been thoroughly explored. "We are not going to shoot from the hip." Lyndon Johnson firmly warned his advisers last week. The President wants to avoid at all events any clash that might debilitate the nation's military strength and imperil his own political stance as a man of restraint. Yet as his critics are bound to point out, the all-encompassing eye that Johnson trains on domestic affairs should have been applied as closely to military and intelligence procedures before the Pueblo embarrassment. Though -after the event-the President took great care not to get into something he cannot...
...phase of the formula and more adamant in another. Instead of asking assurance that the talks would be "productive," he asked only for "reasonable hopes that they would be productive." The hardening seemed to come on military reciprocity. "The other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past. This nation simply cannot accept anything less without jeopardizing the lives of our men and our allies." And the "first order of business" if talks do begin, said Johnson, should be a "true cease-fire...