Word: loosening
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...real, and that the nation can meet it by making some sacrifices and changes in its lifestyle, by taking some chances and paying some costs. What is needed, of course, is to lessen immediately the country's umbilical dependence on crude oil from the cartel. Slackened demand could loosen the market, make OPEC nervous and start a rush by its members to sell. The ways to accomplish that are well known and many, for there is no single miracle stroke against OPEC...
...players loosen up on the field and in the clubhouse, there is the heavy spectre of Zimmer--Zimmer pacing; Zimmer rapt from the dugout; Zimmer with grimace; Zimmer shooting suspicious, beady eyes at the press from behind his desk in the clubhouse...
...each day during the ten-week course, "Communicating with the French," Wylie's students limber up their English-speaking bodies with exercises. Then they scream and yell for a while to loosen their inhibitions. Finally, they study 30-second films of French students in conversation. The Indiana-born parson's son looks a little like that quintessential boulevardier Maurice Chevalier. He grudgingly admits that listening to the dialogue is useful, assurément, "but more important is analyzing the movement and the distance between bodies...
Still, Strasbourg's power of gentle persuasion has produced results, from broadening trade union freedom in Belgium and Sweden to expanding legal aid in Ireland and protecting prisoners' rights in Britain and Germany. Strasbourg has helped induce the British government to loosen its immigration laws, stop mistreating prisoners in Ulster and persuade authorities on the Isle of Man to stop "birching" the bare behinds of petty criminals...
...there are some obvious avenues of attack. Government should loosen regulation, as President Carter has promised. One method would be to set pollution standards and impose stiff fines for violations, but leave it to industry to devise the least costly methods of cleaning up; this would be more sensible than specifying in great detail what equipment should be installed and how plants should be modified, as regulators often do now. Tax policies could be revised to spur investment. Economists quarrel about whether further cuts in taxes on capital gains and corporate profits, more generous investment tax credits or faster depreciation...