In testimony before the joint Congressional committee investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Freeh said he fought throughout his eight-year tenure to make terrorism a high priority, but was hobbled by lack of money and legal restraints that hampered the bureau in penetrating terror networks.
His remarks come weeks after Osborne signed Project Merlin under which it was agreed that in return for banks lending more money and showing restraint on bonuses, the government would not take any more action on pay and profits.
The president of Uefa, Michel Platini, wondered at a football culture which allowed a sheikh from Abu Dhabi with no connection to Manchester to buy up an institution as locally rooted as a football club, and pour money in without restraint.
The swear jar is doing nothing but collecting beer money, and self-restraint is often a joke... Am I the only one sucking on a bar of soap at the end of the day?
Because of that, fewer candidates are choosing to take the money (and the spending restraints that go along with it), culminating in President Barack Obama's decision to reject public funding in 2008.
They love their families and feel as if they've earned the right to spend money on them without restraint.
"What are these people going to do with all this money?" So far, relative restraint — or perhaps bewilderment — reigns.
On senior housing salaries, a statement from Downing Street confirmed: "All bodies that receive taxpayers' money … must exercise restraint on setting senior pay or severance payments".
In one, a £397,000 redundancy package was brought to the attention of the prime minister by a Labour MP. "All bodies that receive taxpayers' money … must exercise restraint on setting senior pay or severance payments," was the message from Downing Street.
