Word: loosest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Pound Ridge, N.Y., was actively recruited by Penn, Yale, and Princeton before deciding on Harvard. "Peerless Pete" is the holder of the freshman two mile record and was beaten to the mile record by a fraction of a second by his roommate, Jon Enscoe. Pottetti is easily the loosest, most relaxed runner on the team. His long-range goal is to make the Olympic squal as a steeplechaser...
...problems of intermarriage with Peggy and Guy, found them well aware of the risks. As to their tender ages, Napier said: "Peggy, for her years, is amazing. She has a kind of maturity, a solidity, going way beyond her years. And Guy, he's one of the loosest, calmest, easiest fellows -of any race." Guy's mother concurs...
...rejecting even the loosest rein from the national party, the federation may have gone too far. Several high-ranking Republicans called for a complete shake-up of the Y.R.s, and more than one indicated he would ask for another look at that $90,000 subsidy. "These were just little things we asked for," fumed one party elder, "and they laughed in our face...
...damage, and injury, the East would secede from the Nigerian federation. During November, he refused to attend a constitutional conference in Lagos, the federal capital, claiming that large contingents of Hausa troops made the city unsafe for an Easterner. At the same time he insisted that nothing but the loosest sort of confederation would be acceptable to the Eastern Region. The only alternative, he said, was secession...
...have imposed strict new regulations governing corporate disclosure. Italy has legislation pending. Belgium and The Netherlands have commissions studying the problem. Moreover, it seems that voluntary reporting of detailed information is becoming a corporate badge of status and confidence. In Switzerland, haven of the holding company, where only the loosest laws exist and no new ones are contemplated, the voluntary reports of such companies as Nestle, Geigy, Alusuisse, Sulzer and Landis & Gyr already reflect recognition that fuller disclosure is the coming yardstick for a company's international standing...