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...only for good reasons. Sykes's indentifications of the real identities of Waugh's characters (and almost all his books have a large dose of roman a clef in them) are much more convincing as he makes it clear that he knew them all personally. The only area of restraint caused by his close relationship is Waugh's marriage, a subject on which he sheds almost no light, aside from denying that Laura Waugh was a "doormat...
...Federal Government will do more for them every year have not been kept. I make no such promises. I offer no such illusion." Ford urged the nation to practice the "common sense" once preached by Tom Paine, and called for a return to the old-fashioned virtues of "restraint" and "self-reliance." The President said, "The time has now come for a fundamentally different approach [to Government], for a new realism that is true to the great principles upon which this nation was founded...
...report implies that holding down the budget will allow the Federal Reserve to pursue a more stimulative monetary policy without fanning inflation. Spending restraint, the report indicates, will also leave open the option of more or larger tax cuts if the economy needs them, and ultimately shift the use of U.S. output in the direction of more investment rather than consumption. Even so, the CEA says that new incentives for savings and investment will probably be needed if the U.S. is to reach "full employment"-now defined as any jobless rate less than 5%-after 1980. A Commerce Department study...
Hagee partially blames her late conversion for her current restraint; she believes that Mormons who have grown up surrounded by the religion are not as troubled by doubts as she has been: "It's a hard thing to catch up to," she says with frustration. An English concentrator now considering graduate school, Hagee was somewhat frustrated by the church's emphasis on education in its services. While she embraces this emphasis as a principle ("It's so positive, it reinforces good things you want to do yourself, it's a constant urge to be better," she says), Hagee also longs...
Responsible Protestant and Catholic leaders are pleading for restraint. "The blood lust which is ripping Armagh must be stopped before the whole of Ulster is engulfed by murder madness," said Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of Belfast's Orange Lodge. William Cardinal Conway, Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, described the Whitecross killings as "spitting in the face of Christ." Added a deeply pessimistic editorial in Dublin's Irish Times: "The headless horseman is driving Northern Ireland full tilt down the road to hell...