Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israelis a carte blanche to go into West Beirut," says one of Reagan's senior advisers. It was agreed, however, that the U.S. should vote for a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel if the measure could be modified to include references to the need for P.L.O. restraint, and if the mention of sanctions could be deleted. When the wording could not be suitably amended, Washington simply abstained, letting the resolution pass...
...judicial ruling reversed a 1981 Administration move that rescinded a so-called passive-restraint requirement imposed earlier on the industry. Now the whole debate over the usefulness of air bags and self-buckling seat belts seems ready to flare back to life again...
...June a three-judge panel ruled that the Government had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in repealing the regulation and gave the safety agency 30 days in which to substantiate its actions. When Peck failed to satisfy the court, it overruled the agency and ordered the enforcement of the passive-restraint rule to proceed...
...interested Nixon but was careful not to bore the President with excessive detail. "A Secretary should never allow himself to be put in a position where he opposes his President in front of others in a meeting," says Kissinger. Silence or deferral of the issue is the ploy of restraint...
...ethereal Ariel (Mia Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes off yet." Allen's directorial eye finds amusement in restraint, allowing characters to wander in and out of a static frame, playing droll tricks on his own autocratic camera. Gordon Willis has shot the pastoral exteriors in delicate earth tones. In one lovely shot, Steenburgen, a backwoods madonna, reclines in the high grass and gently places a large, soft hat over...