Word: restraint
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Education is geared to absorbing facts. Values are based on money, power and status. Life is ruthlessly competitive, yet morals rest on a Protestant puritanism demanding emotional restraint. Work and pleasure are largely directed by machines, and children are put into communication with machines too early, often as a substitute for human relationship. They may learn faster, but do they experience and feel more...
...millions of guns privately owned in the U.S., and the care and restraint exercised by their owners, are a tribute to American democracy, for their very existence exemplifies the democratic system: the mutual trust between the citizen and his government...
...Michael Stewart passes the responsibility for administering the Prime Minister's severe economic measures, which call for a complete standstill in prices, wages and dividends for six months, followed by another six-month period of "great restraint." An unflappable administrator, Stewart is expected to handle the economic czardom with more zeal than Brown could have mustered for measures that go against his grain. He will also get along better with Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, who frequently clashed with Brown on economic policy...
Fertile Crises. Tolchin himself refrained from musing over the possible effect of the full moon on the blackout night-or whether the illegitimate birth rate had also gone up as a result of the long night spent by some in offices. With the impeccable restraint of a good Timesman, Tolchin merely hinted that many Americans apparently require crisis nights to get interested in fertility rites; he found statistics showing that the national birth rate jumped markedly nine months after Pearl Harbor and after the outbreak of the Korean War. In any case, he added, sociologists had predicted all along that...
What bothered Britons was Wilson's drastic program to rescue the pound: the six-month freeze on wages, prices and dividends, to be followed by another six months of "restraint." His plan angered almost everyone, from 23,000 doctors on Britain's health plan, who were required to forgo a 15% salary increase, to the 25,000-member civil service union, whose newspaper called Wilson's measures "a monstrous breach of faith." The powerful Trades Union Congress reluctantly agreed to continue to support Wilson's wage policy, but discontent is so great within its member unions...