Word: restraint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This push and pull between restraint and indulgence is not just Bloomberg’s story: It’s the story of New York City. Manhattan may be New York State’s thinnest county, but the culinary temptations are everywhere. Countless pizza places leave the door open for the smell of fresh bread to waft outside, as thick slices with countless toppings sit on display. In Times Square, bright flashing ads of M&Ms bombard tourists as they gape upward, extra-large sodas in hand...
...matters of business and finance, Westerwelle is far from sharing France's passion for government meddling. Indeed, his calls for German tax cuts and fiscal restraint to bring down the budget deficit is diametrically opposed to Sarkozy's plans to spend his way out of the crisis with a new gigantic government-bond issue. Still, when it comes to Germany's relationship with France, Joannin of the Robert Schumann Foundation points out that the Chancellery rather than the Foreign Ministry usually calls the shots. (Read: "Guido Westerwelle: Angela Merkel's Unlikely Partner...
...noise rock and the excesses of overwrought industrial metal, instead incorporating their androgynous vocals and skillful arrangements into a jammy, electronica–meets–rock framework that resembles, without imitating, the more relaxed aesthetic that Radiohead employed with “In Rainbows.” The restraint demonstrated in these songs make them the only ones which reveal musical and vocal subtleties on repeated listens.“Before Tigers” is followed by the decidedly unsubtle “Severin” and “Eat Flesh,” which are the closest...
...walk hand in hand”—but the way Ira draws out each syllable creates a melodic intensity that rises and falls in waves, in sync with the guitars and driven by the pulsing bass. Though the song gradually builds, it never explodes. Restraint seems in many ways totally at odds with this band—given their endless supply of cover songs, not to mention records—but here it works, preserving an internal rhythm that cycles throughout the song.Like all parents, Yo La Tengo occasionally fail to engage their listening audience. The uninspiring...
...paid back the billions of dollars, and then some, of taxpayer money the government forced it to take last October; raised billions of dollars in capital from private investors, including $5 billion from Warren Buffett; and urged its cadre of well-paid and high-performing executives to show some restraint on the conspicuous-consumption front...