Word: looser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the 1994-95 school year, students have been able to borrow through the government under the Direct Loan program, which has looser repayment deadlines than older programs...
...such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men have-forces us, as thinking citizens, to re-evaluate the relationship between law, its goals and its application. There has always been a tension in legal decision-making between a strict construction, privileging the letter of the law, and a looser one, in which a more flexible understanding of the law's intention dominates. Perhaps the Young Women's Leadership School is an example of when the letter of the law must give way to a more elastic understanding of its intention. Losing the potential of exuberant young women learners would...
...entrenched after it was agreed that member nations which run up large budget deficits will be subject to punitive fines. But with Germany's unemployment the highest it has been since World War II, there is considerable speculation that even it may be forced to eventually advocate a looser interpretation of the guidelines governing deficit reduction...
...they do that, and if the rules are strictly adhered to by all the partners, the French are going to have a lot of trouble making the grade." Sancton notes that the recent difficulties other EU member nations have had in meeting the standards may allow for a looser interpretation of the rules, which could give France wiggle room. "The rules for inclusion are being rethought by everybody right now, because they are all realizing that the effort is too great to meet these criteria. Even the Germans have realized they can't make it, and they've been...
...that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know) that gave it a looser feel and made for softer landings from wake jumps. Skiboarders became wakeboarders, and the sport took...