Word: looser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four of West Germany's eleven states. Moreover, the vote indicated that Schmidt's support of nuclear energy and the basing of new U.S. missiles on West German soil are meeting increasing resistance in the electorate. S.P.D. leftists had already come out in favor of disarmament and looser links with NATO. As the Chancellor prepared for talks with Ronald Reagan in Washington this week, he seemed more vulnerable than he has at any other time since taking office...
...local women to dower with contempt and derision. This is uncomfortably true: wearing shorts verges on the suicidal the farther South you go. Spaniards themselves tend, as a rule, to dress in colors that vary little from the funerial: style and colorful dress are equated with loose morals and looser living habits...
However church money is handled, fiscal accountability is far looser than for other nonprofit organizations, which are required by law to keep records open to the public and follow standard bookkeeping practices. Churches have to meet no such formal standards and have been treated as exempt from government scrutiny under the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. But more and more, church money raisers these days confront a growing public skepticism about how ecclesiastical cash is handled...
Furthermore, it is generally assumed that the Student Assembly occupies itself with issues that now concern students. Even if GUERRILLA were not closely linked to the Assembly, and such links are likely to become progressively looser, it could thus use the Assembly as a reasonably accurate monitor of student opinion...
...bods nor the boodle to dress in the presidential fashion. Nor does White House style necessarily impress the populace. No one stormed the stores for Jimmy Carter's cardigans or Lyndon Johnson's baggy pants. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy's two-button suits (whose looser lines he adopted to disguise the back brace he often had to wear) set a fashion for two decades. Jackie's Halston-designed pillbox hats were as common as canapes at cocktail parties of the '60s. If the Reagan look does not incite the masses to clothe themselves...