Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided to look into this practice, as well as into the fact that within groupings -- the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters, for example -- yearly tuitions tend to be similar. Presumably Justice wants to determine whether there is any violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits restraint of trade...
...facing the classic problem of men at the top: whether to heed the heart or the head. So far, he has taken the cerebral approach. That has pleased many leaders, who have praised the President for "the courage of restraint." But at home Bush heard Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter call the U.S. response "pitiful...
...when celebrities share their private lives. Some stars appear eager to confide their most personal secrets in popular magazines, and they allow cameras to roam freely in their homes -- even their bedrooms -- on shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. "There's a tremendous need for caution and restraint," says Theresa Saldana. But she and others argue that it is their profession more than their publicity that exposes stars to the public...
While Hezb, which has gained a reputation for strong-arm tactics, dismissed the incident as local feuding, some Jamiat members called for immediate revenge -- even if it risked jeopardizing the plans of their military commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud, for a late-summer offensive. Most, however, cautioned restraint. The loss of key lieutenants in the ambush was already a major setback to Massoud's efforts to transform his guerrilla force into a more conventional army capable of cracking government defenses...
Even if it's too early to tell how his proposals will work, Bush's restraint and reason in arriving at most decisions seem to count for a lot. It could also be that Bush's very commonness is his virtuosity -- common decency, common courtesy, common interests and common sense. Before he sat down last week to talk nukes with Australia's Prime Minister Bob Hawke, the President hacked around the scruffy Andrews Air Force Base golf course in suffocating heat. True, he had enjoyed roast saddle of veal Perigourdine at the state dinner, but by Wednesday...