Word: relax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This from the government whose rallying cry has long been "Export or Die" ? Does this mean that Japan, the world's most fearsome economic competitor, is ready to roll down its sleeves and relax while its rivals carve up its slice of the global market? Not exactly. But Japan, under pressure to reduce a trade surplus that reached $83 billion last year, is indeed trying to soothe foreign critics by curbing exports and opening its markets to imported goods...
...movie and big-screen-TV equipment. At the Blackhawk luxury-house complex in Danville, Calif., one homeowner installed a separate entertainment center with a TV and stereo in the guest suite of his 10,000-sq.-ft. Normandy-style chateau, for those times when his guests might want to relax in style without their hosts...
...other a moment. Then they kiss, furiously. She flings herself on him. He gropes for the zipper of her strapless black-and-gold sheath. There is a flash of a man's hand on a creamy thigh, the pull of a black garter. Afterward, the officer and his friend relax into opposite corners of the limo and survey the damage. "My name is Tom," he says with a smile to end all smiles...
...three years ago by Sharlyne Powell and Sharon McConnell, two athletic women of ample proportions themselves. Both had felt uncomfortable taking aerobics classes full of skinny people and being taught by equally slender instructors. At the ten Women at Large salons, from Canada to Tennessee, customers are encouraged to relax and think positive. Clients weigh an average of 175 lbs., and the instructors are equally full framed. Each Women at Large gym sells a line of stylish leotards and leg warmers in hot pink and other fashionable colors. The sizes, of course, are suited to women who weigh...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam No. 40. Then our lynx eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The twentieth century has never recoverd from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now one such might be droll enough...