Word: constraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert A. Durand (D-Marlborough),co-sponsor of the benefits bill, said yesterday hethought both bills would be favorably reported outof committee, but that his proposal would be morecontroversial because it calls for the state toprovide more money at a time of fiscal constraint...
...idea behind a controlled choice plan, as Willie explains it, is that parents will get to choose their children's school subject to one constraint, race. Boston will be divided into three zones, and each school will have a racial ratio within 10 percent of the zone's racial ratio. Willie, a professor of education and urban studies, says that students will be allowed to attend any school in their zone so long as the racial balance of the school remains intact...
...looks as if my candidate for President is going to lose this election. If so, he will be constrained to be graceful about it. Not laboring under any such constraint, I am free to say that the voters -- or at least a majority of them -- are idiots, betrayers of their country's future, misperceivers of their own best interests, ignorant about the issues, gulled by slick lies. Unless, of course, there's an upset. In that case, the voters have magnificently exercised their ingrained popular wisdom, vindicated the faith of the Founding Fathers, demonstrated the innate genius of democracy...
Such passages, the self-abasements of a clearly superior partner, make painful reading. But Wharton's love letters are stirring in other ways. She could discreetly hint at sexual arousal intensified by social constraint: "You can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame." Writhing under Fullerton's sporadic indifference, she could summon up reserves of anger and pride: "What you wish, apparently, is to take of my life the inmost & uttermost that a woman -- a woman like me -- can give, for an hour, now & then, when it suits you; & when the hour...
...court's 7-to-1 vote was a sweeping repudiation of the White House position that the constitutional principle of separation of powers requires an Executive free of nearly all constraint by the other two branches of Government. So much the worse that the ruling was written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the man Reagan had chosen for the court's top job. "I'm sure someone ((in the Administration)) is thinking the word ingratitude," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. Asked about the ruling, Reagan only shrugged. "Nothing's changed," he said...