Word: temperedness
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Nonetheless, the TIME board tempered its optimism. Board members are fearful that huge federal budget deficits may drive interest rates up and slow the economy in 1985. Last week Rudolph Penner, director of the Congressional Budget Office, predicted in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee that the deficit would rise...
Over the last 40 years his policies have changed little, although he has tempered his earlier advocacy of the possible use of nuclear weapons. Now he supports a bilateral freeze. Like many politicians he sees the need for full employment and a balanced budget, and advocates what he calls a...
MODERN WEALTH and caprice were tempered, however, by the medieval spirituality of the Aragonian countryside. He describes the village of Saragossa as one ritualized by religion, habit, and ignorance and therefore of exquisite spiritual temperament. ("At the age of 12 I still believed that babies came from Paris--not via...
The fact is that the people now in the White House, and those who preceded them of both political parties, have all become tempered, cautious and properly fearful stewards of our destructive might. But none has had nightmares over his nuclear responsibility.
Although he tempered his nonconformist style considerably when he entered this year's race, always appearing publicly in suit and bow tie, King did not exactly turn conservative. On a radio talk show he said that he admired Cuba's Fidel Castro more than he did Ronald Reagan...