Word: loosening
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Business groups had mixed views about the proposed changes. While companies generally favor efforts to loosen antitrust restrictions, many fear that calls for broad reforms may arouse strong opposition. Some observers were particularly wary of the provision to relax laws to allow mergers of rival firms in distressed industries. Said Joe Sims, a Washington, D.C., antitrust attorney who represents large industrial companies: "It's got to be a real lightning rod. It's going to attract a lot of controversy and criticism...
Melton has often reiterated that he wants the U.S. to loosen restrictions on how federal funds can be distributed—arguing that the ostensible license to conduct stem cell research is useless unless the government backs scientists financially...
...months and 63 canvases later, McKenzie has painted up her own little universe, from street urchins to femme fatales, in a na?ve manner not unlike the Australian artist Joy Hester. It's a passion that feeds and is in turn fed by her acting. "It's allowed me to loosen the reins," McKenzie says. "Because I'm not demanding everything from the roles I play now ? It's just been a phenomenal discovery." And for audiences likewise...
...sickle-cell anemia. Two weeks ago, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that children with a fatal genetic disorder called Krabbe's disease had been saved with stem cells from cord blood. And last week the House of Representatives, struggling with a hotly contested bill that would loosen restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research, easily passed a bill freeing money for research on the far less contentious--and also less versatile--cord-blood cells...
...good things it did--I would be so nervous about it that I would loosen up in all my sketches. So it helped in my sketch work. But I'm really happy to have a year behind me. I'm just starting to turn the corner and get a little bit more comfortable...