Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pacts had crumbled when members secretly exceeded their quotas. This time producers are still cheating, but considerably less than most experts had expected. Oil-industry analysts estimate that OPEC is producing just 1 million bbl. per day more than the quota. As a result, OPEC's relative restraint is sparking a rally in the oil markets. The price of West Texas intermediate, a benchmark crude, reached $19.26 per bbl. last week, vs. less than $13 last October. Not since November 1987 has petroleum been so expensive...
...transition official: "Cutting people's pet programs is a terribly negative way to start your Administration. We plan to postpone that as long as possible and let Congress clean up its own mess." Democratic leaders of Congress retort that Bush promised to balance the budget without new taxes or restraint on Social Security. Says Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell: "It is protocol, it is tradition, and it is correct for the President to set forth his budget goals first and for the Congress...
...United Nations, the Soviet ambassador, Alexander M. Belonogov, told reporters Thursday that Moscow "gave a warning signal to Washington," before the American jet fighters shot down the Libyan planes, to show restraint and "not to raise the tension in the area." He refused to elaborate...
This honest rejection of fraudulently uplifting sentiment is admirable in a way. But Rain Man's restraint is, finally, rather like Raymond's gabble. It discourages connections, keeping you out instead of drawing you in. -- Richard Schickel...
...general's army is still alive and well. Its looming presence compelled Bhutto to moderate her father's nationalist-socialist program. She declared her devotion to free speech and free markets, and repeatedly assured the military they had nothing to fear from a P.P.P. regime. Praising the army's restraint as "critical to the restoration of democracy," she embraced the military's interests: close ties with the West, continued support for the mujahedin in Afghanistan and development of Pakistan's unacknowledged nuclear-weapons capability...