Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not oblige us to do that, then we have to control ourselves. When Western society was established, it was based on the idea that each individual limited his own behavior. Everyone understood what he could do and what he could not do. The law itself did not restrain people. Since then, the only thing we have been developing is rights, rights, rights, at the expense of duty...
Private economists, skeptical about that rosy scenario, have been predicting slower growth this year and warned that the latest report from the Labor Department could lead the Fed to boost interest rates to restrain the economy and keep inflation in check...
Infuse a 1940s Harlem nightclub act with a Busby Berkeley film's lavish budget, elbow room and staging style, restrain the raunch and remove the racial bitterness. The result: Black and Blue, the sumptuously spectacular $5 million revue that opened last week on Broadway. If Fred and Ginger had been black and still able to live in that elegant fantasy world, their shows might have looked a lot like this: rows of tap dancers in tailcoats or scarlet evening gowns; vast sets like lacquered jewel boxes gliding across the floor and opening to reveal a kick line; a singer...
...justifiable, it's hard to understand why he repeatedly implied that women inevitably must have sex and get pregnant. The author completely ignored the simple fact that a woman gets pregnant when two adults have sex, an act from which both women and men are usually free to restrain...
...against the West German deutsche mark since the beginning of the month. The run-up is a side effect of rising interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has allowed to climb as a means of preventing inflation. But the U.S. and most European central banks decided last week to restrain the dollar by intervening in the currency markets. Reason: U.S. progress in narrowing its trade deficit is likely to be hampered by too strong a currency, since it increases the prices -- and reduces the competitiveness -- of American products...