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...without the Met, which refused for years to recognize her and which now, with Rossini's The Siege of Corinth, has finally mounted for her the kind of production she deserves. Her fans paid up to $500 to see her on opening night and were in no mood for restraint or even courtesy: they cut off a singer in mid-phrase as soon as Sills stepped quietly on stage to give her a two-minute ovation...
...Brown preaches frugality and the limits of government as much as the conservative Reagan ever did. In part, dwindling revenues in a recession year have forced him to hold down the budget. The same dilemma confronts many other governors (see box following page). But Brown takes pride in his restraint, as if he were doing people a favor that they scarcely realize. Too much government, he maintains, has been bad for them. "I think you've got to focus on individual accountability," says the onetime Jesuit seminarian. "You just can't get everything without pain and suffering...
Brown demands similar restraint by the state. After scrutinizing every agency's spending proposal-a feat performed by no other California Governor in memory-he offered a supertight budget of $11.3 billion for fiscal...
Both chambers exercised restraint, considering the political temptations toward generosity whenever a tax cut is contemplated. Oregon Democrat Al Ullman, who succeeded Wilbur Mills as head of the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired the conference committee and earned praise as a moderating influence...
...figure would grow to $100 billion or more. If that report was meant to shock Congress, it had the desired effect. The next day Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, warned his fellow Senators that "Congress is going to have to exercise great restraint to avoid overshooting the mark as we try to get our economy moving again...