Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CORRUPTION: I lose my temper with people who are not honest. I don't like them. That does not mean there is more corruption here than elsewhere. We are going to establish in our civilian sector the same thing that we have in the armed forces, a Committee of Five [who investigate corruption charges]. Even if you do not have absolute proof of the kind you need in [our] courts to convict someone of corruption, if you have enough information you can render a verdict outside the judiciary...
...think it goes far enough. But I believe the temper of the Congress is to build on it and push it further...
...overriding mood of the White House was one of urgency?with good reason. So far, the Administration has relied heavily on the tight-fisted money policy of the Federal Reserve Board to temper prices. That policy has lifted interest rates to towering levels and thus attracted massive amounts of money out of the mortgage market, put an enormous strain on banks and credit, and generally slowed production?without even denting inflation. Growing doubt among investors about the Administration's ability to control the economy has sent the stock market into a frightening slump. The Dow Jones industrial average has plunged...
...would be up against a stacked deck, Colby shrugged: "There's nothing wrong with accountability." The conference was dominated by critics like Ellsberg, who harangued Colby for 20 minutes, and Fred Branfman of the Indochina Resource Center, who accused the director of telling "outrageous lies." Colby kept his temper...
...wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and prayer to avert divine wrath. King Henry II of England, whose burst of temper led to the murder of Thomas a Becket, submitted to a barebacked scourging by the monks of Canterbury as part of his penance for his complicity in the crime. Such dramatic mortifications may have sometimes masked a lack of genuine contrition in the sinner, but they were at least impressive...