Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back as the Long March in 1934. Once a soldier, he later served as Chairman of the State Financial and Economic Commission and has become China's leading economic thinker, the man who insists that China's people need consumer goods and the state must loosen its controls to provide them. This sets him against Li Xiannian, who thinks that China must focus on infrastructure and capital goods...
...large, the Administration's efforts to loosen up the FDA have been foiled by career bureaucrats adhering to the agency's established habits of testing and enforcement. Says Peter Hutt, a former FDA general counsel: "It's simplistic to think that a President or an Administration can turn around an agency when you're dealing with one with a history and tradition like FDA. You can't change that easily, which is both a great weakness and a great strength...
...only thing you could count on tickling your nose was the business end of a Kalashnikov. They said this was a strange terrain of suspicious sexuality-gays are all over. And they said to watch your self around reporters, who would probably offer to buy you a drink to loosen you up. A sergeant said this was the way to respond to all three threats: "No, thank you. No, thank you. No comment." Just about all the grunts agreed they would say what they damn well pleased, but they would keep their names to themselves...
...continue to view with suspicion. Some Vatican officials were worried that the Pope would be jeopardizing his prestige and that of the church by encouraging the hope that Poland's military government could be persuaded to loosen its grip. If John Paul's visit produced no concrete results, they argued, it could leave Poles in a deeper state of gloom than when he arrived. Ever present was the danger that the trip would release so much frustration and rage that neither the state nor the church would be able to contain it. Still, John Paul has gambled...
Played again by Vera Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...