Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Websters have passed the months without cracking their mask of endurance and restraint--recently posting a new reward for information on Joan, holding repeated press conferences to keep her case visible. But a footnote to Bonnic's case this week cast her bereaved parents in a slightly different light. After numerous legal battles, Herrin finally began serving an eight to 25-year jail term. Meanwhile, the Garlands initiated civil proceedings, suing their daughter's murderer for $2 million in damages for "emotional anguish" and funeral and medical bills. On Monday, a judge awarded them $40,000 in damages, plus another...
...arrest the desperate decline of the U.S. economy, Sen. Gary Hart (D-Col.), for instance, has proposed breaks for companies and unions that agree to hold down labor costs. And investment banker Felix Rohatyn, an advisor to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), has proposed government-sponsored wage restraint pacts modeled on the New York City rescue deal he helped to negotiate...
...President noted last week, Moscow has exercised considerable restraint during his term. Even though Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent two letters warning the U.S. not to send troops to Lebanon, he has not yet reacted to the American military presence there. The Soviets also note that they have refrained from giving full support to Central American liberation movements and from directly invading Poland. "Their policy is still oriented toward a relationship with America," Bialer feels. A senior Western diplomat in Moscow agrees: "Some Soviet spokesmen have portrayed the relationship as hopeless, but that is not their real thinking...
...restraint was now gone. Their faces were flushed, and the niceties of diplomatic language and protocol were stripped away. Begin repeated that no Israeli leader could advocate dismantling of the Sinai settlements, and he added that other conditions would have to be met before the Sinai could be returned...
...more definite results. Rather, Ellis was being a responsible newsman who understood the power of television in covering elections. Channel Seven feared it could influence several local races if it announced a projection based on exit polls before all the ballots had been cast. It is that kind of restraint which the rest of the media must voluntarily adopt if they are not to have a debilitating effect on the electoral process in the future. Television has become too smart for the country's own good...