Word: loosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somehow, things loosen up along the way. The jokes flow less smoothly and one's attention wanes as the story progresses. In his best work, Perelman's words crowd together on the page and jab at you continually. Here they seem to spread out and sit more complacently. It is a shame that in our last glimpse of this fine writer, he is not at his best...
...wanderer from the true faith appears to be Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who along with Budget Director David Stockman and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Murray Weidenbaum is a member of Reagan's "economic troika." Regan last week called upon the Federal Reserve Board to loosen the tight money supply. He merely wanted the Fed to honor its own targeted growth rates for the money supply and avoid choking the economy, but to monetarists looser money is absolute heresy...
...week urged the President to declare an end to tight money. Said he: "The President should say to Mr. Volcker, 'Look, we've made good progress with this policy, but now it is threatening to throw the economy into a serious recession, and it is time to loosen things up.' " The President himself last week took an indirect swipe at the Federal Reserve, when he told a California political fund raiser that high interest rates were "hurting us in what we are trying...
...four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...
Nancy Randolph, special assistant to President Bok. said she does not think the University would loosen its own hiring policies or begin paying men and women differently "just because the government got rid of Title...