Word: loosen
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Harvard renegotiated terms to an agreement with a South Korean foundation yesterday that will loosen restrictions on a $13 million endowment established in 1975 for Korean studies...
...infantile personality, both of which serve to present a man at odds with the world around him. Paul’s obsession extends beyond the realm of football; he’s created a lifestyle of blithe immobility and self-neglect on which he refuses to loosen his grip. Even his most immature moments—yelling at his mother for interrupting his 15 seconds of radio fame, scarfing down Chinese food and Mountain Dew until his head aches—act as part of a system Paul has developed for himself to resist his increasingly evident lack...
...heirs of Che Guevara discarding their democratic credentials for authoritarian fiat? Are they going Cuban in response to economic difficulties that could loosen their holds on power? The left hardly owns the market on intimidating the press in Latin America today, as evidenced by media-averse conservatives like Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the Honduran coup leaders who ousted President Manuel Zelaya this summer. But "President Chávez and his bloc of allies all want to consolidate power, neutralize any opposition and remain in office beyond their elected terms," says Robert Rivard, editor of the San Antonio Express-News...
...still conspicuously absent.Unfortunately, the rigid pacing and logical arc of the conventional detective story don’t quite jive with Pynchon’s classic (one might say, inherent) psychedelia. The novel really does feel shaggy and baggy, because the normally lean detective genre has had to loosen up to accommodate Pynchon’s wild narrative loops and quixotic scenic fancies. When the dentist’s secretary pauses a plot-advancing conversation to ask Doc’s friend—“Excuse me, . . . is that a slice of pizza on your...
Upper Hall, according to Cambridge Queen's Head Manager Scott Smider '01, was made possible through the donation of an alum who took it upon him/herself to loosen up the senior class. The donation was meant to last for just 2007-2008, but with some good bookkeeping, managed to be stretched out for the class of '09, as well...