Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major rebuttal to such a transfer of resources--since in a time of budgetary restraint it is correctly assumed that police forces will not be expanded--is that the return to foot patrols would limit mobility and increase response time. Recent research indicates, however, that the contemporary obsession with response time has not helped police effectiveness in the least. A study of response time in Kansas City revealed that on average assault victims did not report their crimes to the police until an hour after it had occurred; robbery victims waited 23 minutes, burglary victims more than an hour...
...United Auto Workers agreed to forgo any wage increases in order to help hold down costs and prevent further layoffs in their recession-squeezed industries. With 335 major wage contracts covering 1.4 million unionized workers coming up for negotiation in the current quarter, a continuation of the wage restraint would be the best evidence that the fight against inflation is really being...
...still capable of stirring surprising hostility. In a baccalaureate address to his senior class last year, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti blamed Emerson for the ugliest tendency of the American character - "a worship of power." Emerson, he said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche suit...
...asking anyone to understand my baseball convictions, just to exercise a little bit of restraint and tolerance around...
...firing last August of 15,000 professional air traffic controllers for their illegal strike action in a wage dispute, has already helped stiffen the resolve of employers in contract talks. Wages and benefits account for some two-thirds of all U.S. business costs, and the emerging pattern of wage restraint in key industries, such as autos, trucking and airlines, strongly suggests that the slowdown in inflation is now beginning to chip away at the so-called core, or underlying, rate of price increase...