Word: temperance
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...Bobby Knight works himself into a hell of a competitive lather. But then, so did General George Patton, another field commander with a winning record who came close to destroying his own career by slapping shell-shocked soldiers in Army hospitals. Bobby admits he has "a temper problem" - which is like Jeffrey Dahmer saying that he suffers from an eating disorder...
...what else was one to expect? The latest Oasis album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, has hardly received critical or commercial attention, while their previous one, Be Here Now, couldn't have been less noticed if it had sank into the pool featured on its cover. Reports of temper tantrums on this current tour hardly improved my expectations as I walked by hordes of ticket scalpers into the Orpheum...
Betty Friedan calls herself a "bad-tempered bitch." She is incommunicado before 10 a.m. She will not pose on a seesaw with her grandchildren for a photo ("too hokey"), and she is prone to temper tantrums. Yet sitting on the deck of her son's home in Philadelphia, grandchildren running around with buckets washing the family dog, she is comfortably in her element. "It's all about family," she says in that familiar gravely voice...
JUAN MIGUEL GONZALEZ You got him, but temper the communist badgering with a little Pokemon...
...inescapable fact: economies cannot remain forever healthy in an unhealthy environment. PAGE looks at the natural world in a new way: not just as a beautiful place that should be preserved for aesthetic or moral reasons but also as an economic asset that delivers irreplaceable goods and services. Ecosystems temper climate, purify and store water, recycle wastes, produce food and support all the other things that make Earth a friendly oasis in a stark and lonely universe. Despite the universally acknowledged importance of these life-creating natural networks, until now no organization has undertaken a global assessment of Earth...