Word: relax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fahd's work habits are erratic. He will disappear for several weeks to relax at one of his houses abroad or on one of his yachts, then return to plow through all the work that has piled up in his absence. He sleeps during the day and often starts work at 11 p.m., then receives top officials and foreign envoys until 6 a.m. Some he keeps waiting for hours while he chats or watches a videotape -- the result not of discourtesy but of a lack of any sense of time pressure. Though his attentions are confined to his wives...
...with a good six weeks to go before Election Day, there is plenty of time to scar Weld, too, and Royer says the Republicans cannot afford to relax a bit. For instance, Silber is sure to attack Weld on his wealth, blue-blooded background...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes 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 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...relies more on foreign fuel today than it ever has, importing 49.9% of its total consumption. If prices rise $3 per bbl., as OPEC wants, the total U.S. import bill will be fattened by about $9 billion, to $63 billion a year. And, unlike the Japanese, Americans tended to relax their efforts to conserve fuel once it became cheap again. At this point, economists do not expect a $3 oil hike to stunt economic growth seriously in the U.S., but even a slight shock is painful with the economy as weak as it is. Last week the government said economic...
...strength of blood flow between beats.) But in this study of nearly 1,000 patients, the researchers found that even people with a mean blood pressure of 130/94 already showed the warning signs of cardiovascular problems. The muscle in their hearts had become less elastic, and failed to relax completely between contractions...