Word: restraints
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...Bulgari and sales-forecasting at Louis Vuitton. Eventually, however, "we discovered we were spending way too much time sneaking to sample sales and taking orders for family members," Wilson says. "We thought this might be a simpler way to go about it and more fun." Only now occasional restraint is in order. "We actually have a policy that we can't buy merchandise until six hours after the sale starts," Maybank says. "We want our customers to have first dibs...
...played for effect--just not the effect you might anticipate. Almost since their first meeting, in 1976 as students at Bamako's Institute for Young Blind People, Amadou and Mariam have billed themselves as the Blind Couple of Mali, and if the lack of an exclamation point reads as restraint, factor in that they often perform in diamond-studded sunglasses. Faced with a world that tends to view blindness and African-ness in tragic terms, Amadou Bagayoko (he plays a killer guitar) and Mariam Doumbia (she sings like an adoring aunt) go out of their way to assert that things...
...clear that the softer spirit allows her to express her full potential. The occasional ominous rumbling of drums or the wound-up melodrama of vibrating string sections hint at powerful release, but Mirah tends to fall back onto lovely but less memorable softness. Mirah’s restraint seems set on driving home the pessimism underlying so many of her songs, as when she sings on “The World Is Falling”: “From here we crouch and watch the plunder of the world we built with sweat and love / Why were you not built...
...Gazans elected Hamas and enthusiastically supported and lauded the relentless bombardment of traumatized and beleaguered Israeli civilians by tens of thousands of deliberately targeted rockets and mortars. It is surely time for Gazans, and in fact all Palestinians, to internalize that actions have consequences and Israel has practiced unwarranted restraint in the face of the deadly provocation it could no longer ignore. Fay Dicker, LAKEWOOD...
Every once in a while, I’ll pick up something in the supermarket, check the number of calories, and have enough self-restraint to put it back. Thanks to the FDA, every package of food is clearly labeled with nutrition facts, making it easy to balance the benefits of a tasty treat with the calorie count needed to keep my beach...