Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of Thatcher's colleagues believe that the experience of being Prime Minister will temper her Iron Lady toughness. If nothing else, she will have to deal with several influential senior Tories who are determined to moderate her more radical views. "What will stop her behaving in a grandiose manner on the world stage is our economic situation," says one of them. But that is unlikely to prevent her from lecturing her counterparts in Western Europe. ("God help them," says one colleague.) Another potential Cabinet member sums her up: "She is a powerful lady, but manageable by her colleagues. They...
...side. He carried an attache case in which he kept a phony highway patrol man's badge and identification, handcuffs, and photos of nude women. A neighbor recalls him as "sometimes too friendly, always trying to impress." At times, how ever, he had violent outbreaks of temper and threw heavy objects against the walls of his apartment...
...consequences in a country used to 'fair play,' a sense of decency and give-and-take, instead of the tooth-and-claw competition of the unfettered market economy. Of course, it is always possible--as many believe and as some progressive Conservatives hope--that the realities of power may temper Mrs. Thatcher and convince her to follow the consensus politics of the past. If she will not, or if she cannot, the divisions of North vs. South, inner-city vs. suburbia, haves vs. have-nots, exacerbated by racial and class tensions, may turn the Tory dawn into a nightmare...
...that below the dead-pan was an emotion that approached glee. "This is it," Sirica allowed himself to think in prosecutorial tones. "This is what I've been hoping for." As it turned out, members of the Administration were not the only ones on trial. Sirica's unbridled temper and his less than brilliant reputation were large targets for the defense attorneys. But the old pugilist had not forgotten how to feint and duck. He remained imperturbable, retired to a neutral corner, and saw every major decision upheld by the appeals courts...
...Geneva meeting was Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose country has long been regarded as OPEC's principal voice for pricing restraint. Indeed, the Saudis, along with the delegates from Ecuador, Gabon, the United Arab Emirates and other moderates, managed to temper the egregious price demands being made by the hardliners, including the Iraqis, Iranians, Libyans and Algerians, who came to Geneva calling for increases of as much as 20% to 30%. But Yamani declared that his country's role as a "moderate" may not last much longer. Hurling a rhetorical threat...