Word: loosen
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...chairman of the Core subcommittee on Literature and the Arts, thinks the standing committee in the past has been "awfully strict and literal" in its interpretation and enforcement of the Core guidelines. However, he says that now, since the standing committee has approved nearly 100 courses, it may loosen up. "The subcommittees are being encouraged to widen the variety and types of courses they recommend. Now we're taking the wraps off, and it's about time," he says, adding that he can envision the Core soon including broader, survey-type courses as a supplement to what is already there...
...NIGHT WHIZZES, spinning like the strobe globe at the disco where you loosen your hips, grinding to a song you swore you hated when the deejay played it four times during the hour you sat on the highway edging toward her house, which you couldn't find because her handwriting is horrendous compared to her typing, which she used to get the job as a secretary in the firm where you work, filing paper and talking it over with the guy in your office who says he knows how to handle chicks and seems to be telling the truth because...
...Still, these were all minor annoyances compared to the fact that she had sprained her ankle the previous weekend. Oddly, the ankle did not bother her when she skated, but it did hurt when she ran, and that was just about as bad. Skaters run before a race to loosen their muscles, a vital part of their preparation...
...wake of revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency had spied on Americans at home and tried to assassinate foreign leaders abroad, Congress and the President in the mid-1970s reined in U.S. spy agencies-altogether too tightly. Now, many Senators and Congress men are determined to loosen the hold...
...offering all sorts of discounts and deals. Already there are signs that this year's 100% increase in crude oil costs is beginning to crimp cartel sales. U.S. oil imports dropped by 8.5% during November to 7.9 million bbl. daily, suggesting that the market is beginning to loosen...