Word: tamped
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...affection for standard operating procedure. But a presidential adviser tells TIME that Cheney was also concerned that the new office would invite more meddling by Congress and create another power center. "If you appoint a czar and he doesn't get what he wants, like if you start to tamp down the spending, all he has to do is go to the press and create sympathy for his viewpoint and make it difficult for the President," the adviser says. Bush and his inner circle agreed, with little debate, top aides said...
...Rehnquist managed the court with a rare combination of efficiency and amiability, and the other Justices will miss him. Justice William Brennan, the late liberal icon, once called Rehnquist "my best friend up here." Unlike some of his predecessors, Rehnquist was fair about assigning opinion writing and tried to tamp down office politics. "There's no one who doesn't like William Rehnquist," says the University of Virginia's Howard. "He really is someone who is easy to be around and has a very unpretentious and pleasant manner...
...with this 10 seconds of focus stuff," says Scorsese, and laughs. "Don't let him kid you--he's incredibly thorough." DiCaprio read thousands of pages of Hughes biographies, watched old newsreel footage and spent days with obsessive-compulsive-disorder expert Dr. Jeffrey Schwarz, but is so conditioned to tamp down interest in himself that he is reluctant to discuss it. "Trust me, dawg," he says dismissively, "you don't want to hear about...
...urged the new government to pursue talks with insurgent groups, so that genuine Iraqi nationalists among them could be brought in and given a stake in a post-Saddam order. Neighboring Arab countries, as well as Coalition partners such as Britain, have also warned that the only way to tamp down the insurgency will be to give the Sunni population, fearful of the Shi'ite majority over which they have long lorded it, a greater stake in the new political order. Should initiatives along these lines be pursued, a split might develop among different components of the insurgency...
...launch strikes inside Israel or indeed in Gaza itself. The result, however, has been an escalating cycle of violence in Gaza that shows no sign of abating. And absent any political incentive for making the plan work, it's unlikely that the Palestinian leadership will do much to tamp it down, even if they could. Absent a Palestinian structure taking charge of security in the wake of an Israeli withdrawal, the Israelis are trying to do the job themselves before they leave by eliminating known enemies. That, however, draws them in more deeply and continually runs the risk of killing...