Word: loosening
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...position as it enters into talks with South African President F.W. de Klerk about the shape of a new constitution that would for the first time enfranchise the 26 million blacks who represent 68% of South Africa's population. Mandela is seeking assurances that the U.S. will not prematurely loosen the economic sanctions it imposed on Pretoria in 1986. He is also looking for "money in buckets" to help the A.N.C., unbanned in February for the first time in 29 years, change from a militant underground force to an aboveground political organization...
...them along to new-home buyers. To offset the cost of sewage and street building, parks and schools, local governments began imposing "impact fees" of as much as $25,000 for a newly built home. So it was no less important that California voters also agreed last week to loosen the state spending cap and exclude certain expenditures from the limits...
...take into account people who may be hurt. When he does something like this, it hurts the Republicans' perception of him. If he continues along this vein, his chances will be very poor," Bradford says. "He should loosen up a little bit and put these things into perspective...
...playthings are a rarity, and has also handed out 1,000 parcels of land to farmers. Two weeks ago, Ortega pardoned the last of Nicaragua's political prisoners -- more than 1,000 former contras -- captured since the Sandinistas seized power in 1979; a week earlier he had promised to loosen exit-visa requirements...
...friends tend to remember gifts he gave them 30 years ago. For Barbara Walters, who worked with him in p.r. in the late 1950s, it was a black, shorty nightgown -- presented not as a romantic gesture but to twit her for being too prim. "Bill was saying, in effect, 'Loosen up,' " she recalls. Safire was introduced to Helene in 1962 by motion-picture executive Edward Bleier. After a whirlwind wedding, Safire presented Bleier with a silver matchbox engraved, "To Ed, the perfect matchmaker from one of his matches...