Word: loosening
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...mandates, while clear conveyers of goals, are hazy indicators of implementation. What is the best way to improve undergraduate education? The prevailing sentiment assumes the answer lies with structural reforms: Hire more Faculty, increase the number of freshman seminars, improve concentration advising, provide more research opportunities, loosen course requirements, revamp the Core, hire teaching fellows who can speak English, et cetera...
...raised a skeptical eyebrow at many of his predecessor?s sweeping, last minute edicts aimed at protecting national wildlife and parklands - and has indicated he is open to the idea of drilling in Alaska and Florida?s protected lands. He has also weathered protest over his willingness to loosen arsenic standards in drinking water...
...might not normally talk because we are competing. But we can loosen our shirts and sit back and talk about the challenges [in the field],” Foster said...
...turn at the machine, can't help but add a little personal oomph - a shoulder jiggle here or a hip swing there. Maybe that's because the DDR is strategically placed next to the space-age bar, so a little beer can help wannabe dancers loosen inhibitions. "You want to make the moves all your own," says Aldea, who also deejays hip-hop gigs. "That's what makes the routine last in people's minds for more than a few minutes." And if you pick up the freestyle title in the process, all the better...
...summit showed the limits of Saddam's comeback. What mattered was not the readiness to lift sanctions, but the continuing insistence that Saddam abide by U.N. resolutions designed to curb his military ambitions. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II were the most willing to loosen the economic noose, but they insisted Saddam accept his U.N. obligations and seemed stunned by his obstinacy. "Iraq," said influential Egyptian columnist Ibrahim Nafie, "does not want to help itself...