Word: reins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order a special physical-fitness program that includes jogging, calisthenics and other forms of vigorous exercise. This tends to counter a side effect of one type of immunosuppressive drug: demineralization of the bones. One patient, a professional bowler who will shortly be discharged from Stanford, has been given free rein to resume his career; another is careening about Palo Alto these days on a ten-speed bike...
While thus dispensing general guidance, Federated gives its divisions wide latitude to follow whatever merchandising strategies best cater to widely varying styles, tastes and incomes in each store's territory. In particular, Cincinnati headquarters has allowed Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale...
...March, when Kissinger's Middle East shuttle collapsed just as South Viet Nam and Cambodia began to fall, the Secretary lashed out at Congress for not responding with more arms and money for Southeast Asia. Ford's advisers again warned that Kissinger was overworked and overwrought. But rather than rein in Kissinger, Ford joined him in an unproductive attack on Congress...
...music? He adds: "He was no child prodigy. He developed so much, from enormous talent into great genius. I do not think it can be coincidence that his greatest work came after he shed his livery." That was of course after he was given free rein by his employers, the Esterhazys, in 1790. He then wrote his best masses, oratorios, the last twelve symphonies, and spent his free time counseling upstarts like Beethoven and Weber...
...Cliffe team needed more push to its offense, so Yntema loosened the rein and let his players "roam all over," he said, with a few emphasizing defense...