Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexican government officials have been pressing U.S. banks and other lenders to relax their terms and extend to the country at least an additional $4 billion in new loans. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado warned that bankers must share "the responsibility and sacrifice" of solving Mexico's financial ills. So far, though, creditors have been wary of risking new money...
...three U.S. agencies that regulate banks--the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation--said last week that they plan to ask Congress to relax laws that prohibit interstate banking. Reason: the regulators have begun preparing contingency rescue plans in which several big-city banks would stand ready to take over faltering institutions in the oil patch...
They take their time and relax, though, in front of Au Bon Pain, where manager Douglas O. Parker has just set up coffee tables and chairs accomodating 200. While "people love to sit and sip coffee," he said, chocolate, ham and cheese, and spinach croissants are their best sellers. The only new item on Au Bon Pain's menu this spring is blueberry croissants, which they will introduce next week...
...figure out their real motivation, however, we need only look at another provision of McClure-Volkmer. That provision would restrict law-enforcement authorities to one surprise inspection of gun dealers per year. So if you are a gun dealer, and your shop has already been inspected, feel free to relax your standards for the sake of sales; the NRA will do its part to be sure that the law protects your laxness. Clearly more than protecting honest sportsmen is at stake...
...pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker...