Word: looser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Cal was welcoming Heyns, some of the looser ends of last winter's disorder were being tied up in Berkeley municipal court, where Judge Rupert Crittenden was passing out jail sentences of up to 90 days, most of them suspended, and fines ranging from $50 to $300 to some 754 convicted campus rebels. Nearly half of them informed Crittenden that they would not accept a probationary condition that he also imposed: to refrain from any more illegal demonstrations for up to two years. The judge responded with tougher sentences, generally the option of paying higher fines or going...
...Member. It has gone about its task with energy. At Nouakchott, the 14 nations-which had worked together -in looser league since 1961-plotted action against Chinese Communist infiltration, accused "certain states, notably Ghana," of subversion and, for the first time, called for support of Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe in his battle against the Simbas. Last week a majority of the nations met again, in the Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan, to carry...
...seeking wives and children of laid-off workers. What if other countries did the same? Sweden, celebrated land of low unemployment, not long ago adopted the U.S. system; to their chagrin, the Swedes soon found that their national unemployment rate was four times higher than under their old, looser standards...
...Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The Communist nations are blackballed from GATT, and the underdeveloped view it as the rich man's guarantor of the unsubsidized order of world trade. GATT has enough Western support to survive; but there will probably grow up alongside it some broader if looser trade machinery that will operate under the unwieldy U.N. Even though the underdeveloped nations' inflated expectations will not nearly be satisfied at Geneva, many Western delegates had concluded even by the first week's end that the conference would leave its mark on world trade patterns...
...have often been struck by the self-containedness of the family lives of most of the Americans I have met. Their lives seem to center on the immediate family much more than ours do, while their links with remoter relations and friends seem to be much looser...