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Word: relaxers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regulation. The Government will rescind some costly federal rules, such as emissions standards for pollution-prone high altitude areas like Denver, relax factory standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and ease up on certain auto durability test requirements. The Department of Transportation promised that it would not issue any new regulations for the rest of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter's Auto Rescue Sortie | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...varied as the back's problems may be, up to 80% of those who complain of lower-back pain are victims of one of three syndromes. The most common of these involves nothing more than overworked muscles. Normally, as the body moves, its muscles contract and relax in quick succession. But if they are strained beyond their limit, they rebel. An overtaxed muscle suddenly goes into a sustained contraction, or spasm. It becomes a hard, knotty mass. The tiny blood vessels that bring it oxygen and nourishment and carry off wastes constrict. Soon some of the cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...monthly customer at one New York salon: "I felt I was wasting a lot of time waiting around for my wife to have facials, so I decided to have them too. Now I look forward not only to what it does for my skin, but what it does to relax me." Until two years ago, Klinger's shop in Beverly Hills had an inconspicuous side entrance for men. But now the male customers are willing to march right up to the front door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Macho Glop | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...back up their sedition charges against Kim Dae Jung, which conceivably could make him liable to the death penalty as well. Removing an opposition figure like Kim from the political scene might be a temptation for a military autocracy in the making. But it obviously would do nothing to relax the explosive tensions in Kwangju. As the past few weeks have shown once again, unruly events in South Korea have a frightening way of taking on a life of their own. At the height of the bloodshed and chaos in Kwangju last week, one university demonstrator shook his head with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Season of Spleen | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...wisest of men are fools, indicating that the best intellectual minds we have in our world are not able to cope with what God is really like. The experts are trying too hard. You don't reveal God, he reveals himself to you. Tell them all to relax, forget their intellectual reasoning and open themselves to him. He'll come; we have his promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1980 | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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