Word: tempering
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...opposed this war since the beginning. "Wasted" is a strong word, but not an inaccurate one if you believe the war was wrong. (In fact, the verb "to waste" became a synonym for killing during Vietnam.) But Obama, like every other politician, has to watch his words, and must temper any sincere expression of horror and dismay, or he will be accused of not "supporting the troops...
...While these large undertakings are incredibly valuable, they largely aim at invoking change beyond the immediate future. It is time that we supplement the community event of evaluation with a regular community practice capable of addressing concerns and flaws at once. By making evaluation commonplace, the teaching hotline will temper sensitivity to constructive criticism and encourage the profusion of a new discourse between students and faculty...
...they spat and spark, so does Moonlighting shine. But even when the TV cameras are not shooting Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, the atmosphere on the set of the ABC hit series is getting, well, just a wee bit volatile. Stories of temper tantrums and jealousy between the stars are making the rounds in Hollywood. Perhaps to get away from it all, Shepherd and Willis have stepped up the moonlighting they do when they are not doing Moonlighting. Willis, who has been known to croon a note or two on the series, will be making like the New Jersey Bruce...
...would return to the politics of responsibility that the Bush Administration has so willfully ignored. Yes, the world economy is doing very nicely. But there are too many exogenous factors out there that can turn into short fuses. The best hope is for a U.S. that will again temper raw strength with trustworthiness - and which remembers that it has always done best for itself when it did good for the rest of the world...
...powerful political muscles. And in the Vatican, the conservatism of John Paul II found its natural successor in the austere and more thoroughgoing orthodoxy of the new Pope, Benedict XVI. There seemed no stopping this cultural surge, just various attempts to adjust to it, restrain it from violence and temper its extremes...