Word: temperedness
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But the Cambridge senator repeats that backers'optimism must be tempered, and that the fight ishardly over.
That political triumph has been tempered by the fact that those same cities are often plagued by crime, drugs and deteriorating schools. Black mayors have had much success in fostering the growth of a black middle class, dispensing thousands of city jobs and using minority set-aside programs to direct...
U.S. Attorney Lehtinen, 43, grew up in Homestead, next to the park, and was appointed federal prosecutor for South Florida in June 1988, just when George Bush was campaigning for the White House by promising "no net loss of wetlands." An Army paratrooper who was badly wounded in the face...
For a bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West...
In Germany too the treatment of Jews kept getting worse. The Nuremberg racial laws of 1935 deprived them of German citizenship and forbade them to marry or have sexual relations with "Aryans." In 1938 they were barred from practicing law or medicine or engaging in commerce. Along with such laws...