Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the last part of the first half, the Crimson team seemed to relax, holding onto a comfortable lead. Its aggressive rebounding disappeared and the Radcliffe players began taking forced shots. Wheaton took advantage of the cooling-off time and started to find the rim, but the half-time scoreboard still favored Radcliffe...
...Chairman Arthur Burns to try harder to increase the money supply. In the last two weeks, the money supply has moved upward again after nearly five months of no growth. Housing is usually last to benefit from an easing of credit conditions, but Burns is predicting that credit will relax enough so that large amounts of mortgage money will be available by next spring. Yet the Federal Reserve has no intention of breaching its 5% to 6% long-term target for expansion of the money supply...
...maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board, "you can't relax. If a dingo gets through the fence it can kill 50 sheep in a night...
...meantime, the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy, while upholding traditional doctrine, have taken steps to relax the stringent rules on annulment, thereby creating easier ways out of broken marriages. U.S. bishops recently won from Rome an extended approval of simpler annulment procedures, which, among other things, no longer demand that a favorable decision by one matrimonial court always be confirmed by a second court. Moreover, more and more diocesan marriage tribunals recognize "psychic incapacity" in either partner as a fatal defect in the original marriage contract-an interpretation that has led to a sharp rise in the number of annulments...
...lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly becoming as much a part of American life as organic apple...