Word: looser
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...back to square one." That source adds, referring to Abbas by his nickname: "Abu Mazen will be hit hard. Hamas will have a heyday, and say, 'We told you so.' We want to avoid that scenario at all costs." Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apparently prefers a looser conference agenda, one unlikely to commit to fresh negotiations...
...Aykroyd and Bette Midler hosting, the ceremony was a remarkably fresh and satirical take on dull old awards shows. Because its premise was that the awards themselves were a joke - statuettes went to bands for videos in which they often didn't appear, let alone direct - celebrities were looser and more spontaneous, and so was the show...
...homeward. Taking refuge from the lowering darkness, we see each other with grateful eyes, reconnecting after a long day away from home. When I come back to my Brooklyn apartment, the nighttime drones with disjointed activity. Without the tacit community of my youth—or even the looser one shared by frenetic Harvard students—I feel more disconnected from my roots, from myself, than I have ever felt before...
Falwell did push for greater restrictions on abortion and looser tax treatment for parochial schools. But again and again he overreached. He railed against feminists and homosexuals, denouncing in the most divisive terms all those who he believed would undermine traditional family values--including, most notoriously, the purple, purse-carrying Teletubby Tinky Winky, whom he accused of corrupting children. When Falwell suggested that God had withdrawn his loving protection from America on 9/11 because of the offenses of gays and feminists and the A.C.L.U., he was not saying anything new--but many in the audience were now listening...
...during the Reagan years that Falwell seemed to most flex his political muscles, pushing the newly minted Republican Administration to tighten laws regulating abortion, preaching against homosexuality and pornography and pushing for looser tax treatment of, and more generous federal grants to, parochial and Christian schools. Falwell also dabbled in foreign policy, supporting Israeli sovereignty against the Palestinians and opposing the Reagan Administration when it announced plans to sell early warning planes to Saudi Arabia. The Moral Majority lasted only a decade, until l989. But Falwell remained a controversial figure - and a go-to source for politicians and reporters seeking...