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...adds that he is "not afraid to make a fool of himself," if he can help others loosen up. After Nadkarni moved to Winthrop House, be became House social chair and added such diversions as jello wrestling to more traditional activities. Once he dressed as Cher for a lip-synching contest. A devout fan of the Washington Redskins. Nadkarni donned a tux and hosted a party during the 1984 Redskins-Raiders Super Bowl...

Author: By Timothy W. Plass, | Title: A Harvard Hinjew | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...recent months all have one thing in common: the fear that the Fed would ease up on money policy. Following last month's temporary closing of 69 savings institutions in Ohio, the dollar took a beating in money markets. Reason: fear that the Federal Reserve would be forced to loosen its grip on the money supply and lower interest rates to protect the U.S. banking system. Last week's dollar slide was due in part to worries stemming from the bankruptcy of Bevill, Bresler & Shulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey investment firm dealing in Government securities. The Federal Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Bullish About the Buck | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...every SAT contains an unscored section of experimental, often difficult candidate questions for future tests. One such question asked for the antonym of the word imbibe, whose common definitions are to drink and to receive into the mind. The answer choices were (A) dissuade, (B) reward, (C) exude, (D) loosen bonds, (E) refuse help. According to Owen, only 13% of students taking the test marked E.T.S.'s answer, exude, which is the opposite of soak, an archaic definition of imbibe. Review students are taught to spot the experimental section by its heavy cargo of muddy puzzlers and are told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cracking the Sat Code | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...kind of intensity, they'd win 10 Stanley Cups. And Steinman uses his star player to drive home the message that in a world as ludicrously violent as ours, the only same thing to do is sit back and laugh in a fit of voyeuristic ecstasy. If you'd loosen your bow tie, you'd realize that...

Author: By Jeff Chest, | Title: They're Still Heeeere...' | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

...analyzing her results, Landers gave her usual cross between philosophy and sermon. "This says something very unflattering about men in this country," she said. "It says men are selfish. They want theirs." Yet she was quick to distribute the blame. "Some women need the message: loosen up, be sexier." Above all, Landers cited the so-called sexual revolution as the root of many of the problems. "Women are anxious," she said. "They're reading in Cosmopolitan that if they don't have five orgasms a night they're undersexed or freaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Finding Trouble in Paradise | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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