Word: relax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alarming slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices for oil and natural gas that Ford plans could restore the raging inflation that is only now beginning to relax its debilitating grip...
...them abandoned it as soon as they left the hospital and medical supervision. A handful of doctors even tried surgery to depress blood pressure. The operation was called a sympathectomy; it cut certain nerves leading to the organs of the chest and abdomen on the theory that this would relax the arterioles. It did but only temporarily; the arterioles soon responded to hormonal signals to constrict...
...honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended in divorce, does find time to relax. His golf game is good enough (in the low 80s) to allow him to pair up occasionally with an acquaintance named Jack Nicklaus...
Liberal Jewish scholars tend to take Bible criticism for granted, but they no longer accept it as unquestioningly as they once did. Says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Manhattan: "The scientists are no longer the bishops. Reform scholars can now relax and show their true affinity to the Bible...
...Dame was unhappy with Ara. His team won the national championship last season and takes a 9-2 record into the Orange Bowl against undefeated Alabama. Trouble was the coach could not live with success. The demands, he says, have simply gotten too great. "There is no time to relax. College football now is more than just a twelve-month job; it's more like a 14-month job. After 25 years of coaching, I needed to back away from it, if I could, and take another look...