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Word: looser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, schools with looser interpretations of Title IX exist, and it is those administrators that have decided that single-sex programming serves a higher goal...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Complying With Title IX: How Harvard Interprets the Law | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Alone, David is looser. He plays baseball in an over-30 league, and one morning he took me to his game. (He played first base and pitched, batting two for four.) Baseball, he says, is the one thing that allows him to forget the ordeal, if only for a few hours. On the drive home, he spoke passionately about his love of nature, literature and philosophy. Before long, though, his mind returned to the Unabomber. Soon after his brother's arrest, he says, "I had a depressive realization that I don't know if I'll ever really feel carefree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Don't Want To Live Long: Ted Kaczynski | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...told her about an experimental diet drug being tested at nearby Baylor University, and Smith signed up. For two years, she and thousands of other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viagra For The Thighs? | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Regardless of cast and set, Valparaiso is clearly and firmly Don DeLillo's play. Despite DeLillo's published statements that the play is much looser than his novels, the script is incredibly tight. Here, DeLillo's inexperience as a playwright shines through: as several reviews have evidenced, the play is too densely constructed for much of the audience to understand in a single viewing. DeLillo's brilliant use of words is wasted by the speed at which they are spoken. Repeated viewings, however, bring to light connective strands of the plot; the script is a sheer pleasure to read...

Author: By Dan Visel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Don DeLillo Poses For Candid Camera | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...body becomes one variable with other variables that generate gender," she said. "The relationship between the gender and the body is not detached. It's looser...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nicholson Addresses Freudian Theories | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

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