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Word: loosens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds that government agencies are right now trying to loosen rules governing such parts of auditing as cost transfers...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: A Question of Interpretation | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

...would be allowed only if the private school did not discriminate on the basic of race or color, the individual student requested the aid and if the aid was consistent with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits government establishment of religion. The proposed amendment would also loosen restrictions on state and to hospitals and certain religious or charitable ventures...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Mass. Voters Face Referenda Today On Nuclear War. Environment, Death Penalty | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

...diner some guy is loudly blabbing about the dog's infected ear, the faucet drip and how he was attacked by giant broccoli in a dream. These details can loosen screws. The only reaction: order coffee to go. No one should suffer the minutiae of another person's life. Unless that person happens to be Andy Rooney. In that case order eggs and sausage, sit back and laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suburban Sage | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...disappointing. Rather than offering a complete program for getting America back to work. Newsweek gives a conglomeration of uncoordinated proposals--mostly unimaginative, mostly bad--pulled from an economist's grab-bag that would create more problems than they solve. The solution provides little good advice on how to loosen the grip of unemployment...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: Newsweek Economics | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...that national dream could threaten the ruling junta, which had rallied unprecedented public support in the wake of Argentina's April 2 invasion of the Falklands. But there were some signs last week that the junta may be looking ahead to a time when it might have to loosen its control on the government to stay in power. Brigadier General Basilio Lami Dozo, the commander of the air force and one of the three members of the junta, spoke vaguely of the need for the "participation by all sectors" in the government in the future. The junta, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Caught in the Fallout | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

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