Word: looser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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School cutbacks and working parents have left teens with a looser after- school life. Many use that time for afternoon jobs, but less to pay for college than for a car, for freedom and the chance to socialize more with peers, who may pressure each other into ever greater sexual exploration. Sandra, 17, in Des Moines, Iowa, pregnant and due in November, says she has slept with 33 boys. She keeps count and doesn't think her behavior is all that unusual. "A lot of girls do the same. They think if they don't have sex with a person...
...prescription for Ray Charles seems simple: Work on the music and let the image take care of itself. With his new album, the cure is in hand. My World offers 10 songs, some tonic sonic production, and the man himself, sounding looser and more engaged than he has since Seattle blew in and rap took roost. My World is touched by up-to-date accents -- a techno flourish here, a bit of street beat there -- but it mostly presents Ray Charles himself, foursquare, singing from the soulful heart of pop. And that's plenty good enough...
...book Levels of the Game, Davis Cup teammate and occasional opponent Clark Graebner described Ashe's game: "He comes out on the court and he's tight for a while, then he hits a few good shots and he feels the power to surge ahead. He gets looser and more liberal with the shots he tries, and pretty soon he is hitting shots everywhere. He does not play percentage tennis." That unorthodox brilliance was never better displayed than on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1975 when Ashe faced the enfant terrible of tennis, Jimmy Connors. Connors swaggered onto the court...
Quebec separatists avoided defeat. But to make the province an independent country, they would have to win provincial elections in 1994 and then a provincial referendum. Polls show only about a third of the Quebec vote to be hard-core separatist. Quebec's demands for a looser federation, Western insistence on greater clout, aboriginal longing for self-government -- all are likely to be fought out piecemeal in Ottawa, with uncertain results. The only point everybody can agree on is that the idea of trying to solve all these problems by writing a new constitution is dead for years to come...
...year. (The White House won't say whether the boss would gut his own $200,000 salary.) "Other Americans have tightened their belts, and so should the better-paid federal workers," Bush told his Detroit audience of business heavyweights, whose own belts, of course, couldn't be looser...