Word: looser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that this trend toward increasingly cautious sexuality is not exclusive to the Harvard campus. The fear of HIV has been (not inappropriately) latched on to sex, and people are taking precautions. However, influenced as our generation is by the "looser" mores born of the sexual revolution, our sexual conservatism is clothed in risque attire. We hide our concerns about the implications of sexuality behind witty posters that seem to extol sex; we subscribe en masse to a big dating game, with the hopes of finding our truly compatible mate. Perhaps that is the irony of our era--we talk...
...Harvard curriculum. In another economics class, students were asked what a business should do if its products were found to be unsafe for the environment and were banned in America. Most immediately responded that the company should try to take it business abroad where environmental standards were looser or nonexistent, and the teaching fellow agreed that this was a smart recommendation. Is it any wonder that some American companies still use dangerous pesticides such as DDT in Latin America...
...surprising win in Delaware on Saturday, Forbes desperately needs a win to revive his flagging campaign. Buchanan, meanwhile, hopes a win in Arizona will make his case that he is a legitimate candidate and not someone who is just trying to push the Republican Party to the right. The looser may be Alexander, who Tuesday resigned himself losses in Arizona and the Dakotas that leave him finishing once again well out of first place in a primary. "I'm a patient man," he said, and suggested he would concentrate on looking for a win in South Carolina or in another...
...heightened and almost anal-retentive detail of earlier etchings soon expands to include looser, more casually rendered portraits (such as the mid-eighteenth century "Preste de la Loy") and quick political caricatures (such as those of eighteenth-century Britain). The medium is particularly effective on the larger scale for which this specific printmaking process allows. In Giovanni Piranesi's eighteenth-century "Arch of Ianus Quadrifons," the sheer size and weight of the severe values combine with intense detail, resulting in a piece of surprising presence...
...looking for such a thing in Washington to buy a dog instead. But now the musing has taken on great urgency because friendship, it turns out, is one of the few exceptions to the draconian new congressional ethics rules that took effect on Jan. 1. These rules replace older, looser ones about accepting gifts, meals and junkets. The new standard in the House is "Zero Tolerance"--no freebies other than trifling gewgaws and home-state souvenirs from anyone at all, except family or friends. The Senate still allows gifts up to $50 in value. No one has enough family members...