Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that U.S.-Soviet relations can improve only if Moscow stops trying to gain unilateral advantages on the world scene. Partly in preparation for his encounter, Haig presided over a still secret interagency study of U.S.-Soviet relations, which concluded that the new watchwords of the superpower relationship must be "restraint, reciprocity and linkage." Each term, as Haig may explain to Gromyko, puts the onus for improvement on Moscow...
...part, O'Connor smiled, primly crossed her ankles and placated her inquisitors with platitudes: she was, she said, honored by the nomination, a firm advocate of judicial restraint and a strong believer in the family as "the hope of the world and the strength of our country." Introducing her husband of 29 years, John O'Connor, 51, a Phoenix lawyer who will follow her to Washington, and her three grown sons, Scott, Brian and Jay, she reassured those who might wonder if a woman can indeed have everything: "My nomination to the Supreme Court has brought...
...economists, it would be unfortunate if the Federal Reserve Board were to change course now, just when its policies are beginning to help make a definite dent in inflation. Reagan told his Cabinet last week that he shares that view. "I want to see the Fed continue monetary restraint and be the fourth leg of our economic program...
...directly connected to deeds and penalties (perjury charges or impeachment). Ronald Reagan had no trouble making such a connection for the air-traffic controllers. But the dictatorial and the insecure have always been fond of the oath as a way to enforce orthodoxy, to lay down a prior restraint upon people's opinions. During the 1950s the loyalty oath turned into a destructively pervasive American genre, with a legion of earnest patriots afoot, like the ghost in Hamlet, crying, "Swear...
...best exploration--and into these silences this production does not attempt to read too much. These characters for the most part are shadows--inventive shadows (Pablo's and Louis's shift from the childish to the grandiose are beautifully done)--but for the most part they allow themselves the restraint needed to remain unwitting victims. Occasionally the pace of the show is a bit off and the silences are lost, but for the most part the subtlety is to be commended. Suicide in B-Flat remains one of Shepard's best works, and this production, a rarity, does it justice...