Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only revolutionary superstar in Nicaragua last week. Cuban President Fidel Castro toured the country for a week after an initial appearance at Managua's anniversary rally. He did not appear to have come to preach Marxist revolution. Instead, his low-key visit was marked by uncharacteristic restraint. "We are here humbly to learn and to be influenced," he said...
...Doing a comedy is a lot like the clown at a party. If he has restraint, he walks away and you say, 'Who was that guy?' But if he does one lampshade joke too many, you go, 'Who was that asshole...
...such occasions, court watchers customarily try to ascertain where the court as a whole stands, whether it is moving toward conservatism or liberalism, toward activism or judicial restraint. The only answer is that the court is deeply divided. The four cases decided last week produced a total of no fewer than 22 concurring and dissenting opinions, which filled a total of 345 pages. Even those Justices who agreed on a decision often differed over the reasons for it. Only one opinion was signed by a court majority of five. Two of the decisions, on abortion and benzene, pleased political conservatives...
...that the Justices of the Burger Court decide cases on the basis of a painstaking review of the merits of each one rather than by the dictates of any overriding political or judicial philosophy. If there was any general theme to last week's decisions, it was judicial restraint: a tendency to respect the acts of legislators and ancient tradition. In the abortion and quotas cases, the court let bitterly disputed decisions by Congress stand, and in the trials case it stressed an Anglo-American tradition of public trials going back to before the Norman conquest of England...
Etzioni's miracle drug has some painful side effects. He is calling for a decade of restraint in personal consumption and the redirection of national resources to halt productivity declines and reduce inflation. The ten-year cost: a stunning $6 trillion, or more than twice the current annual production of all goods and services...