Word: restraint
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...Tonight we are going to show absolutely no restraint whatsoever! None!” exclaimed Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle as the band took the stage. Doyle remained true to his word. While Great Big Sea’s studio recordings are popular especially in Canada, the foursome has always been best known for their live performances. Last Saturday was no exception. From the first few chords of their opening song “Ordinary Day” to their final song, “Rant and Roar,” which concluded their third encore, the band...
...East this week is the noise of U.S. Mideast policy being slammed out of reverse and into first gear. Having spent most of the past three months with its arms folded, blaming Israeli-Palestinian violence almost entirely on Yasser Arafat and sparing Ariel Sharon even pro-forma calls for restraint, the Bush administration has lately been scrambling to reinvent itself as an even-handed activist mediator. The President on Wednesday castigated Sharon's tactics, sponsored a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a Palestinian state and sent Marine General Anthony Zinni back to Israel to pummel the two sides into...
Jantzen’s final was as decisive as Rechul’s was exciting. When Jantzen faced Penn senior Joe Henson several weeks ago, he wrestled defensively to earn a 1-0 victory. Facing Henson again on Sunday, Jantzen showed little restraint, pinning his top ten-ranked opponent...
...more Vajpayee emphasizes moderation and restraint, the more he comes into conflict with much of his party's core support base. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), an organization with close ties to his own party, openly rejected Vajpayee's exhortation to call off the temple construction plan and vowed to proceed on March 15. More than 15,000 Hindu activists have moved into Ayodhya for the job, and the site is now guarded by hundreds of Indian security personnel. The train massacre has only deepened the VHP's determination to force a confrontation on the temple issue. With communal tensions...
...resume its stalled mediation efforts - particularly in light of the Iraq factor. The Saudis and other pro-Western Arab leaders have warned the U.S. against initiating action against Iraq while the West Bank and Gaza are ablaze. And that creates an incentive for Washington to press for Israeli restraint in the interests of mustering maximum support against Saddam...