Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...implied restraint -- no single, mammoth German state was ever conjured in the speech -- seemed to appeal to many of Bonn's allies, as did the fact that the text betrayed no inclination for West Germany to stray from the folds of NATO or the European Community. The U.S. reacted positively, though it did not endorse Kohl's plan. State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said that "it should be no cause for concern that the Chancellor has laid out his vision for the future of Germany." The presentation did surprise Western capitals in one regard: Kohl had consulted none of them...
...American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...
...stones from three different directions is not expected to stand still and take the punishment. Unlike in China and in Algeria, where in the past year peaceful demonstrations were broken up by a hail of gunfire and murder, the Israelis are reacting to the violent protests with considerable restraint. Dealing with such protests is a very difficult, but necessary, task that can never be done "peacefully." That is not to say that no abuses have occurred, but what can one really expect when every day for a period of two years 20,000 soldiers have battled violent demonstrators. Anytime that...
...press freedom and is politically awkward: registry-board members are appointed by the Governor. A better idea would be to shame media and "experts" into ending the practice. Says George Annas, professor of medical ethics at Boston University: "The board shouldn't regulate this. It calls for self-restraint on the part of journalists and professionals, and that is very hard...
Politicians are blissfully silent on Thanksgiving. Such restraint is appropriate for a holiday that commemorates one of the rare occasions when the white man treated the Indian with dignity and respect. But public officials may also be chastened by the experience of Franklin Roosevelt, the only modern President to try to tamper with Thanksgiving. Back in 1939, Roosevelt touched off a patriotic uprising when he issued a proclamation unilaterally shifting Thanksgiving from the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday (the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas selling season...