Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Siever, who last performed in a concert two decades ago with the Belmont Symphony Orchestra, says playing music and learning new pieces helps him to relax...
Like many people in today's high-strung society, a number of professors view music as a way to relax after a long day at work. A few select instructors even take an active role in creating melodies...
...assistant professor in Nutrition and Media at Boston University's School of Health Sciences, Visconti measures success through pre and post-tests, and cites as proof of her system's effectiveness the relaxation of those who perform the workout. She points to golfer Rocky Thompson, who claimed in The Boston Globe that the light and sound goggles helped him relax for his golf tournaments...
ALTHOUGH "UNION BUSTING" is the most common claim against businesses that hire replacement workers to stay afloat, that charge should not be used lightly. Often, as in the case of The Daily News, businesses only hire replacement workers after unions have walked off the job and refused to relax ludicrously outdated union rules regarding work practices. At The Daily News, management offered wage increases in exchange for an end to expensive practices which Hoge says "systematically killed off several New York papers." Only when the offers were refused and it was clear that The Daily News would have to either...
...Adam Hann-Byrd. "Adam is a very realistic kid, very aware," she says. "I wouldn't know how to direct a kid to be that way. So I'd load him up with a lot of technical things -- kids usually connect with the technical -- and then he would just relax. Or I'd say, 'Make your eyebrows like you're scared,' and that would make him a little nervous. And then I'd get what I wanted...