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...those who are already struggling merely to obtain, at inflated prices, the necessities of life. Closing tax loopholes is the more humane route. Last year, profits for 1200 American industrial corporations, banks and utilities surveyed by Business Week, rose an average of 22 per cent over 1978. The loosest belts should be tightened first...
Three games remain on the schedule--versus powerhouses Brown, Penn and Yale--and the Crimson may be at its loosest, since the squad is virtually out of the title picture...
...good mood that day was too irrepressible to quench. He had Politicians' Euphoria, a condition I later came to recognize on election-night victories-that moment of vulnerability when candidates are at their loosest and most expansive. Ike held a drink in his hand, and I found myself in a corner encouraging his indiscretion. Baron Krupp had just been freed from Allied imprisonment; and two of us launched him on that subject. There was nothing we could do about Krupp now in 1952, said Ike; we had to let Krupp go free; but he didn't like...
...West," says Le Carré, "that we want to produce the loosest possible system which gives the greatest amount of individual freedom to each individual and minority. But in the defense of the individual we have to turn ourselves into a collective. Whatever wars rage outside, there remains a constant one inside: the open society versus the closed...
...encourage movement, its construction on different levels actually inhibits it. There is almost no choreography to speak of--just a series of stiff, back-and-forth movements in waltz time. As the music swells expansively in the "Night Waltz," for instance, the dancers--to use the term in its loosest sense--remain rigidly in place, tracing out small, clumsy circles...