Word: loosening
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Faced with soaring benefits costs, the Harvard Corporation voted yesterday to loosen its purse strings, taking the rare step of revising funding levels it had already set for the next fiscal year...
...We’ve had a really long week-and-a-half, and we’ve had some really tough games,” Stone said. “We’ll just loosen up Thursday and tweak a few things strategically. Then we’ll be ready to go on Friday night...
...We’ve had a really long week and a half,” Stone said. “We’ve had some really tough games and the kids have done well. We’ll just loosen up Thursday and tweak a few things strategically, and then we’ll be ready to go on Friday night...
...course you do, you’re a Democrat!” It was clear that this debate would not die without an interruption—so the first round of drinks were ordered. These politicians-in-training obviously didn’t need any alcohol to loosen their tongues, but we anxiously anticipated what would be unleashed when Sam Adams and José Cuervo joined the roundtable. We gave the group what we imagined to be classic IOP drinking game selections: Do, dump or marry: Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Chirac and Ariel Sharon...
...October 23 for substantial pledges of support. So far, however, the picture looks mixed: Japan has pledged $5 billion and Britain almost $1 billion, but Canada and the EU, between them, are good for only half a billion. The administration is hoping that a new UN resolution may help loosen the purse strings, although the constraints on many of the donor nations may be economic as much as political...