Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends and foes alike consider Kirkpatrick's staff inexperienced and inept. In the past, members of the U.S. mission would keep abreast of a nonaligned meeting, quietly emphasize Washington's interests and encourage friendly delegations to exercise restraint. This time, no one from...
...smaller nations are demanding state-of-the-art equipment in everything from fighters to frigates. Even as they deplore the buildup and fear its consequences, the major arms sellers echo the old dirge of 19th century slave traders: "If we don't sell, someone else will." The only effective restraint on the seller, it seems, is the difficulty in beating competitors to the most lucrative contracts...
Kellen said "the guidelines are ambiguous. If Kipp advises prior restraint, that's both advising and prepublication censorship...
...They must realize that if they undermine U.S. clients, Washington will reciprocate by trying to make trouble for theirs -and, conversely, the Soviets must reciprocate any gestures of restraint...
...most part, Congress as a whole has always practiced self-restraint in dealing with the courts. Factions within Congress have over and over again tried to hobble or thwart the federal judiciary-liberals in the 1920s when the high court kept striking down their measures outlawing child labor, conservatives in the mid-century years when the Supreme Court struck down some state antisubversion laws. But the anticourt propositions of these and other factions were never enacted by the whole Congress...