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Word: relaxers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five years ago, Akio Morita--Mr. Sony--fell to the ground during a game of tennis. The co-founder and chairman of the board had suffered a stroke. He has since been in a wheelchair. This is particularly sad, as Morita had never been able to sit still and relax. At 72, he was playing tennis at 7 a.m. each Tuesday. I know this well because I would practice on the court next to him. My tennis, however, was very different from his. I played with an instructor, and if I was tired, I would just take a break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AKIO MORITA: Guru Of Gadgets | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

According to Colvin, prefects should "relax the incoming students, take the pressure off and help them adjust...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Perfecting Prefecting | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...with a personal vendetta and nothing to do with constructive argument, Jenny Heller mounts an attack upon strip clubs. Urinate upon an altar, torture puppies, but for God's sake, do not attack the most sacred institution known to man! Strip clubs are both a great way to relax and enjoy fine company, as well as a way for Harvard males to escape the repressed, angry and sadistic man-hating that occurs with all too much frequency here. RUSSELL E. SCHMIDT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save the Strip Clubs | 11/25/1998 | See Source »

...danger of such an invasion can easily be used to discredit those who would relax the disenfranchisement laws. There is little politically to be gained from such a position, and much that can be lost--what candidate will take a controversial position to woo a group that cannot vote...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: For Felons, an Unjust Political Death | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...time, and heard the chirping words of her grandchild coming over the wire from the New World. We can lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax as planes, trains and automobiles zip us around the shrinking world--Boston today, New York tomorrow, Sri Lanka the next. We can both love and hate voice mail, call waiting, cell phones, car phones, beepers--they always keep us in touch, but they never leave us alone...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Isolated in the Information Age | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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