Word: temperments
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...Avoid emotional antics, like losing your temper. They play into the hands of parents looking for an opportunity to brand the Woodstock set immature and therefore incapable of being dealt with on an equal basis...
...never seem to be listening to you; their eyes dart around the room while you are talking to them. They do not coordinate what they see and hear. Many of them talk a blue streak. If they do not instantly get their own way, they are apt to throw temper tantrums...
Desperate Crime. Democratic Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana was one of the earliest to show the temper of the Senate. After President Nixon scored the Congress in June for failing to act on his anticrime legislation, Hartke, who faces a tough re-election race against a conservative Republican opponent, issued a statement to his constituents praising the merits of the Nixon proposals. Wisconsin's Democratic William Proxmire explained that the Senate's and the public's fear of crime outweighed obscure and difficult-to-explain constitutional rights: "Where you have a desperate crime-increase situation, you take...
...panel will consider ways to temper the inflationary impact of higher wages. By some industry estimates, labor costs account for at least 75% of the price of all U.S. goods. Besides publicizing wage or price increases that seem out of line, the commission will probably delve into the operations of many industries. It will, insists one high-ranking Administration official, be a live and sharp-toothed animal. "It's a rabbit now," he says, "but it could turn into a tiger...
...debate will continue as Republicans offer other amendments that might ease the restrictions on the President or at least delay a final vote until the issue seems academic. Much of the intensity already is going out of the argument as the public temper cools. If the Senate does pass the Cooper-Church language, the House is not expected to go along, and even if it did, the President would surely veto the bill. Yet the issue is not meaningless. What is really at stake is a highly political proposition: whether the Senate will in effect censure the President for taking...