Word: looser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the existing plan kept salaries low and curtailed their ability to move freely to higher-paying teams; the owners argued that fewer restrictions would unleash uncontrolled salary escalation. On this last point, both sides might agree; in the National Basketball Association and major-league baseball, free agency is looser. Annual player salaries average $1.1 million and $1.08 million, respectively. In the N.F.L., the average is about $400,000. Probably not for long...
Bush says he opposes the measure, which would supersede a patchwork of similar laws already on the books in 30 states, because he believes its looser registration requirements would lead to voter fraud. Less advertised but no less important is the White House's reluctance to boost voter turnout in a year when outsider Ross Perot has scrambled the Electoral College math and the throw-the-bums-out mood has reached epidemic proportion...
...their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev suggests, that he might have succeeded in his second attempt to form a new, looser union in the months after the putsch if the Russians had not wavered in their support. Gorbachev gives the impression that the overwhelming vote for independence in Ukraine might somehow have been reversed, and was not an insurmountable obstacle to his plan...
...whole team hit well," Johnson said. "We all felt a lot looser than we did this weekend, and our hitting reflects that...
China's huge crop of baby boomers, born in the 1960s when Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution crippled the nation's embryonic birth-control program, have reached childbearing age. They have also developed looser sexual habits: premarital and extramarital sex is rising rapidly...