Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to take over another U.S. publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. William Jovanovich restructured the company to thwart Maxwell's anticipated $2 billion bid. "Jovanovich killed the company. He's a dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where oil was ten years ago. There will be seven to ten great global communications corporations...
Even so, Pakistanis feared a repetition of the violence and ballot-box fraud that rapidly destroyed nearly all the country's previous attempts at democratic rule. The quiet this week at the 33,328 polling stations was hailed as a triumph of restraint. "Peace has not broken down," wrote Maleeha Lodhi, editor of the Muslim, an Islamabad-based daily. "Violence has remained well within the limits of subcontinental acceptability...
...segments of the play, and he stops throughout to explain his writing and himself to the audience. As might be expected, The Writer represents Simon himself. But Simon does a good job of keeping himself in the background of the play, and Doctor benefits greatly from Simon's restraint...
...commonplace to demystify this election as a bitter battle for spoils between two competent, albeit uninspired managers, each of whom would cleave to moderate policies if elected. By this reckoning, the lack of cutting issues in the campaign suggests an underlying consensus that the next President will practice budget restraint at home and respond prudently to Mikhail Gorbachev's overtures abroad. "Each candidate is a pragmatist," contends Stuart Eizenstat, who was Jimmy Carter's chief domestic adviser. "Neither is an ideologue. Temperamentally, each is cautious and, within his own party, more or less a centrist...
...that Dukakis' economic nostrums are "far outside the mainstream," and snidely hinted that they come closer to European-style socialism than American free enterprise. It is a scant defense to suggest that these hyperbolic words were scripted by Bush's handlers; a President too, if he does not exercise restraint, can be at the mercy of his speechwriters. Balanced against this is the high-level technical competence and inner harmony of the Bush team, which may well be a prelude to a consensus-driven, smoothly organized White House staff...