Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kenneth A. Shepsle, professor of government and chair of the government department, asked audience members to restrain their cynicism...
...that this report comes at the end of the semester, when the pressures of exams and papers are likely to restrain student efforts to respond. Nevertheless, the Carnegie Report will undoubtedly encourage many of us students to intensify our demands for change in the University. Usually, these demands are brought forth in what is by now a familiar and formulaic fashion: old grievances are revived and new ones adopted, petitions are circulated, resolutions are drafted, articles are written, etc., all in the effort to lobby the administration to make significant changes to its policies...
...became wild Robin Williams. They gave him lots of liberty to go crazy. In the recording studio, we were separated from the audience by a 6 inches of glass, so they could laugh their heads off - people would literally be crying from laughing so hard--but I had to restrain myself from laughing because it would pick up in the booth. One time I actually had to get down on the ground because I was afraid my chuckles would be picked up on the tape...
...first set of polls shows that Americans are perhaps ready to admit what they suspected and probably knew all along: our President is a compulsive womanizer and liar. He cannot restrain himself even in the most public forum. Late last year in a visit to Venezuela, Clinton flagrantly flirted with a presidential candidate, who just happened to be a former Miss Universe. Nor can he tell the simple and whole truth on the most trivial matters. Last November, Clinton said he had not eaten at McDonald's since he became president, a laughable lie disproved with a simple NEXIS search...
...teenager's abduction as kidnapping. "When they sent this so-called escort service to pick up their boy, they took him against his will," Hutchins says. "That's kidnapping." Normally, a parent cannot kidnap his own child, but Hutchins argues that by giving Tranquility Bay the power to "restrain, control and detain" their son for a year, they effectively handed over custody of him, which, he says, California case law prohibits. Hutchins also contends that David's brief examination at Brightway was a sham and that his parents had already signed a yearlong contract with Tranquility...