Word: restraint
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Thus was dissipated a wave of speculation about the possible retirement of the dry, dour Kosygin, regarded as a leading exponent of reform at home and restraint abroad. In recent months, Kremlinologists have professed to divine signs that the 62-year-old Premier might be in failing health and weary of the job. Instead, Kosygin was unanimously re-elected by the delegates on the first day, along with some of the other members of the collective leadership that took over from Nikita Khrushchev almost two years ago: among them President Nikolai Podgorny and First Deputy Premiers Kyrill Mazurov and Dmitry...
Mindful of Dallas and Lee Harvey Oswald, Cleveland and Dr. Sam Sheppard, Miami and Candy Mossier-and of recent Supreme Court decisions on the handling of suspects-Chicago newspapers have treated the mass slaying of eight student nurses with reasonable restraint. Headlines and stories have been as cool as the event permits. Still, in collecting the lurid details, one paper has had a clear advantage. Chicago's American was able to unleash Harry ("Romy") Romanoff, 74, the last of the city's great Front Page, get-the-story-at-all-costs reporters...
...that drastic action might be necessary to head off serious national inflation. But last week, as if on cue from an unseen conductor, the Administration's tune changed. From White House aides, the Treasury and members of the Federal Reserve Board came warnings about the need for fiscal restraint in an economy that keeps on exuberantly expanding...
...fact is that the most inflationary factor in the U.S. economy is, and almost always has been, Government spending. And though he is not the least bashful about urging spending restraint upon others, President Johnson remains unwilling to impose such restraint on his Great Society programs...
...crossing deals through which manufacturers, in order to sandbag their competition, award exclusive sales rights to retail distributors. Now, in a long-awaited decision involving one such arrangement between Grundig, a West German electronics giant, and Consten, a French retail distributor, the Common Market has moved to topple the restraint-of-trade tradition...