Word: temperance
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...sabotaged her talent with breakdowns in concentration under pressure. But last fall Navratilova finally calmed down. Under the management of former Professional Golfer Sandra Haynie, now an athletes' agent, Navratilova bought a home and went on a rigid diet. With Haynie courtside wagging signals, Martina brought her temper under control and soon was chopping down opponents, as well as her own excess poundage...
...Naval Academy graduation exercises, that they had to choose between confrontation or cooperation, he may have got more of a reaction than he bargained for. In a seeming shift in tactics at week's end, the White House began sending forth signals that it was going to temper its rhetoric in dealing with the East in the hopes of reversing the downward cycle of détente...
Taking some price rises today to temper inflation tomorrow
They are worried about a lot more than just production and profits. The temper of the times has moved them: they see the rattletrap slums as they are driven in from the suburbs; they hear their young managers, products of the 60s, speak of dreams unfulfilled; they listen to their wives and daughters tell The men at the top in business- a bit self-conscious that theirs is a white, male domain- are trying to respond. Most are struggling with ways to hire, their train and capital and promote more intellect to women, revive the blacks and cities. Almost Hispanics...
...book with the subtitle Some of My Best Friends Are People should be flung across the room. The reader is urged to employ this method of criticism with the volume at hand, a collection of Leo Rosten's light essays. Book flinging improves the temper of the flinger, and in this case it improves the book as well. Passions and Prejudices, when it is retrieved and smoothed out, gets down to business and stops apologizing for its intelligence...