Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around Mass Hall, Steiner, 49, enjoys a reputation for more than dependability and versatility. He is widely seen as Bok's right-hand man, the aide whom the president is at once most likely to rely on and relax with. The two men work down the hall from each other on the first floor of Mass Hall, and Steiner has constant access to the president. He is also the unofficial captain of Bok's Jocks, a rag-tag team of Mass Hall softballers...
...hundreds of Israeli kibbutzim, its cooperative agriculture communities, were once feverishly intent on expanding the nation's wealth through hard work. Today most are building swimming pools or tennis courts--indicating the nation's growing eagerness to consolidate and relax, not expand...
...small local shops, buying up Port Stanley's supply of postcards and objects carrying the Falklands' motto, "Desire the Right." One storeowner has already sold out a supply of watches and jewelry that would previously have lasted half a year. Meanwhile, Britain announced it would relax the 200-mile "total exclusion zone" imposed at the height of the Falklands crisis. But Britain, still wary of Argentina's intentions, asked that country's military ships and aircraft to stay 150 miles away...
...play the low bass notes with my left hand to give the illusion of a bass drum, and I'll kind of pound the piano to get the feeling that the drums are there. As the rhythms become tense they become more nervous. As they relax themselves they become more laid back, and that's where the really funky side comes...
...more to a quad than another flipflop. When a flyer is traveling through the air at 80 m.p.h., reaction time is measured in milli seconds. "If it's a triple somersault, Mi guel can feel if he's going too fast," explains Juan, 32. "He can relax and slow down. If he's going too slowly, he can tuck up tighter and complete the third somer sault faster." The quadruple, by contrast, allows no such mid-course adjustment; once the flyer has released the bar and tucked himself up for the first of four turns...