Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weak banking system, could fall again unless the Federal Reserve moves quickly to lower interest rates. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has kept rates firm to control inflation. But with the threat of a "double-dip recession" hovering over the economy, Greenspan may feel new pressure from the Administration to relax his monetary grip as the 1992 presidential election draws near...
LIVING Day spas, the fast way for busy people to relax...
Fast cars, faster food -- everything is getting quicker, including the rush to relax. Hard-driving Americans who will not -- or cannot -- take time for $ the lengthy luxury of a resort spa still want tiny bites of that bliss. Increasingly they are getting them by popping around the corner to a day spa, where a body scrub, mud bath or Shiatsu massage can be had in a jiffy. From Manhattan to Los Angeles, the body-friendly pit stops are becoming the trendiest way to deal with clangorous city existence. "All the stress just falls away," says Susan Luokkala, a Los Angeles...
...shambling, jury-rigged affair, filled with innate tensions, contradictions, broken springs. Hollywood could help by promoting better uses for the body, like real sex, by which I mean sex between people who are often wrinkled and overweight and sometimes even fond of each other. The health meanies could relax and acknowledge that one of the most marvelous functions of the body is, in fact, to absorb small doses of whipped cream and other illicit substances...
Last week, seniors found themselves in a temporal void, having completed their exams but left with a number of days before senior week activities got underway. Some of them worked to earn a few extra dollars, many chose to relax in the houses for one last week and make an occasional swing into Boston, while others took the opportunity to leave Cambridge for a while to visit places they didn't have a chance to see during their busy Harvard careers. A handful of seniors, who chose the travel option, split up into two cars that were slated to slither...