Word: restrained
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...likely that Jus tice has any intention of breaking up the company. Probably, the trustbusters will use the threat as a bargaining point in working out a consent decree at the end of a case that is likely to drag on for years. Justice mainly hopes to restrain IBM's zeal a bit so that more competition can flourish. IBM called the charges "unwarranted" and promised to "defend itself forcefully." As evidence of the "open and strongly competitive nature of the computer business," it cited the fact that more than 60 systems manufacturers and some 4,000 companies dealing...
...President-elect Richard Nixon to pursue a more even-handed policy in the Middle East, if he should so decide. In what might almost have been a preview of such a policy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week called on the Arab states to "do their utmost to restrain terrorist activity," and on Israel "to recognize that a policy of excessive retaliation will not produce the peace that Israel surely desires...
...genre of pop music ("I like to ride on a reindeer/Wouldn't you like to, too?/Wouldn't you like to hold the rein, dear, on my reindeer, dear?/It never rains, it only snows with you."), and Buckman delivers them with such soupy sincerity that you have to restrain yourself from joining in. He also does a striptease and participates in an "action-packed wrestling match on slow-motion video tape," two bits that defy rational description or analysis...
Last Word. Walker found instant support. "It is an excellent document," said Jay Miller, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Illinois division. Wrote Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko: "Those policemen who did not bash private citizens showed great restraint. Not only did they restrain themselves from hitting citizens, they also restrained themselves from restraining the policemen who hit the citizens." But William Campbell, chief judge of the U.S. district court in Chicago, suggested that Walker's staff had worked hastily, heedless of an investigation by a grand jury that he had appointed. The grand...
With that observation in mind, McCracken will probably emphasize the utilization of adjustments in the money supply to stimulate or restrain the economy. One of his thorniest economic problems, of course, will be inflation. Any concerted drive to stop the price spiral would involve deflationary steps that could increase unemployment. McCracken would probably be willing to see the jobless rate rise slightly above the current 3.6% in order to cool the feverish economy. But he is unlikely to tolerate the 5%-plus rate that some economists and businessmen think is nec essary. In a recent speech, he noted that...