Word: restraints
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...Keening” is a document of modern life in Colombia, but not a histrionic one. It portrays both the mundane and the shocking, the joyful and the tragic. By doing so with restraint and humor, playwright Humberto Dorado has managed to create a play that stands above its politics...
...seems to fit that bill," said Sen. Charles Schumer, who sits on the panel. Schumer did criticize Bernanke, however, noting that as top White House economic advisor he had come out in favor of the extending the Bush tax cuts at a time when a "a voice for fiscal restraint and moderation will be much-needed...
...producer Babette Pepaj, 32, applies poker perspective to her life every day. "Many times in business," she notes, "we keep trying to fix something that isn't working simply because we've spent a lot of time and energy on the project. Admitting defeat is hard, but having the restraint to fold ultimately protects you and keeps you in the game--and this is a skill you don't necessarily learn in business school...
...conservative logic was imprudent at best. Those policy makers who pushed for the Iraq war seem to have been contemptuous of the decidedly ruinous effects of their wild military excursion in the bitter Arabian deserts.When people are being killed daily, great and far reaching emotions diffuse without restraint. In a literally explosive situation like that in Iraq, it is just unreasonable to jump to issues that even nations living in peace struggle with, such as composing a national constitution, trying a dictator, or even engaging in democratic elections. The reason is clear: an honest, passion-free, and inordinate discourse between...
...able to tie federal funding to the whims of political opinion, invalidating the protection of the nondiscrimination code for all students. If the Pentagon really can take away massive grants that have literally nothing to do with the Department of Defense, there’s nothing but congressional restraint that stops them from changing any other university policy on a political whim. All students, whether queer or straight, conservative or progressive, powerful or powerless, should be concerned about the implications of that precedent for the sake of academic freedom and equality of opportunity...