Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time to Relax...
...police department, and the citizens of Miami have gone on record as approving the sale of beer in the Orange Bowl. Small beer, perhaps, to everyone except imbibers in Miami, but some more momentous decisions were also made last week. The citizens of Pittsburgh voted 2 to 1 to relax pollution-control laws, hoping to open up new jobs in the beleaguered steel industry. And more than 3 million voters-a record number-came out in Ohio to repeal, 2 to 1, the state law allowing people to register to vote as late as Election Day itself. The main fear...
...name unprecedented numbers of women to positions in his administration. At her urging, in fact, Truman was on the verge of appointing an Ohio woman judge to the Supreme Court before Chief Justice Fred Vinson nixed the idea because he felt "the boys" wouldn't be able to relax with one another when discussing cases...
...ramshackle one-story barracks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, sea In the ramshackle one-story bar racks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies...
...Detroit automakers for the past few weeks have been holding their breath. Their $6 billion investment in retooling for new models that have been sharply reduced in size and weight (TIME, Aug. 1) represented a gamble: Would the public like the smaller "big" cars? Last week the carmakers could relax a bit and repeat previous predictions of near record sales during the 1978 model-year with more conviction. New-car sales for the first 20 days of October?during which time most of the new models were in the showrooms?jumped 16% above a year earlier. That figure does...