Word: relax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other issues, the ministers achieved compromise and consensus. For the first time in a decade, they agreed that inflation has slowed enough for many nations to relax restrictive policies and, in the face of stubbornly high unemployment rates, to make growth their top priority. To help revive international commerce, the OECD nations pledged to "dismantle" trade barriers and government subsidies that have shielded weak industries from foreign competition...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; Iynx-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 recovered 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...
...Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where two weeks ago students were celebrating the last week of classes and blowing off a little pre-finals pressure at the annual Spring Fling. In the carnival-like atmosphere, filled with strains of rock and the smell of hamburgers and beer, thousands of students relax under the approving eye of the administration. The first impression the outside observer gets is that Penn students take themselves seriously, but not too seriously to preclude a weekend of total chaotic...
...wrong element," he explained. "We just want to bring different groups of people to relax together and listen to each others' own kind of music...
Instead of drawing out the comic possibilities of this lovely scenario, the BSC actors tend to remain in pointed and stiff positions throughout the show, producing an artificial and amateurish effect--though they relax somewhat by the third...