Word: restraint
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...feel, but occasionally overused by some members of the community who view it as an extension of the daytime services. The emergency service is centrally located in the interest of community safety and convenience, but convenience should not be the prime consideration in its use during the night hours. Restraint in its use by those who really do not need it will improve service for urgent cases...
...panicky aversion to takeovers by the great American giants has worn off in the past few months. A major reason is that the U.S.'s $132 million balance-of-payments surplus in the second quarter muted the old complaint that American businessmen were using their almighty dollars without restraint or discipline to buy up European industry.* There is also a growing awareness among Europeans that the U.S. stake is still relatively small, amounting to $11.5 billion, or less than 5% of total European investment...
...already-famous one in which Colin, Tom, and Nancy push, paddle, and ride a Victorian wrought-iron bed through London). To a wild, try-anything-a-couple-of-times sense of humor Lester brings an understated visual style. What might be unbearably corny in other hands scores through its restraint. Nancy, for example, seeks directions from a surveyor as he positions an assistant carrying the sighting pole, and as the surveyor gestures vigorously the second man sidles over into an open sidewalk elevator. He is seen, however, only as a tiny vanishing figure in the background, and after a quick...
...that might endanger it. Lately the direction of prices and wages has become a cause for quiet concern in Washington. Last week Lyndon Johnson brought that concern into the open by attacking as "disastrous" a pending bill to give all federal workers a 4½% pay raise and demanding restraint from steel management and workers in their crucial bargaining (see THE NATION). Said the President: "There must be continued cost and price stability in our economy...
...largest egg auction hall. There some 2,000 farmers and their families in the Saxon market town of Cloppenberg stood stolidly as the Chancellor launched into his basic campaign theme for 1965: the need to develop in West Germany a formierte Gesellschaft, meaning a well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke...