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Word: loosest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a half-hour of Marty Feldstein or James Kugel, even the loosest limbed get cramped. But kick hard if you're looking to stretch those legs--this isn't your run-of-the-mill renovated Temple Beth El. Who designed this place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Dobson is now boosting former Representative Bob Dornan, the loudest, loosest cannon in all the right wing, who is running again for the California seat he has yet to concede he lost in 1996. If in conservative Nebraska the new family value seems to be tolerance, let's see if Newt goes to California to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing A Dobson's Choice | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...ugly and dirty, with women depicted in rape fantasies, smeared with excrement, likened literally to pieces of meat. Of course, a lot of Hustler's grosser features, like the infamous woman-in-a-meat-grinder cover (glimpsed briefly in the film), are supposed to be, in perhaps the loosest sense of the word yet devised, satiric. But as is the case with a lot of humor that allegedly pokes fun at demeaning racial stereotypes, the laughs don't always fall on the side of the angels. And speaking of demeaning racial stereotypes, the current issue includes two cartoons dealing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORNOGRAPHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...Britain, with Europe's loosest labor laws and no minimum wage, shows that flexibility is no cure-all: its jobless rate of 10.3% is similar to Italy's, which has some of Europe's tightest worker protections. No one in Europe much admires the American model, which is equated with slums, homelessness, crime and drugs. As they see it, the U.S. job-creation machine of the 1980s produced millions of "working poor" in service jobs and cost low-skilled workers a 20% drop in the real wages. Europe, through its high minimum wages and other rules, saw a rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to Welfare | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...movement only in the loosest sense of the word, and its members are disparate. A philosophical base of sorts has been laid by Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, an investigative history of marijuana and its uses. Groups like the Cannabis Action Network have brought youth and an environmentalist ethic into the trend. And the new film The Money Tree, about a pot grower, gives hempsters a movie to call their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello Again, Mary Jane | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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