Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revamping of socialism at home is already having rippling effects elsewhere. Sadat's moves, for instance, are making it easier for Syrian President Hafez Assad to convince his Baathist regime to relax restrictions on the private investment that Damascus also needs. More significantly, Sadat is finally reclaiming the Arab leadership that Egyptians had traditionally enjoyed and Nasser once held. Nasser's charisma, however, worked mainly on the masses, many of whom still listen to broadcasts of his old speeches (some of them insist that he is well and living in the Soviet Union and that he will...
Employing a combination of show business and sleight of hand to charm and relax his patients is routine for Brodeur, 51, who is both a radiologist and an active member of the Society of American Magicians. Aware that a hospital is a bewildering and often frightening place for a sick child, he has been trying, since assuming his position in 1959, to minimize children's fears by making "this place and myself not look Like a hospital...
...blunt dialogue between astronauts and Mission Control, relations improved enormously. So did the spacemen's performance. Helped by a steady program of exercising (bicycle and treadmill), the astronauts made a physical as well as emotional adjustment to their life in orbit. They also got more tune to relax; for amusement, Carr would open a jar of peanuts and "swim" after them as they drifted off, swallowing them up like a hungry guppy. "From what we've seen on Skylab," Astronaut-Physician Story F. Musgrave said last week, "I don't think there is any limit...
...Therefore, if there is no intention of tightening this knot, thereby dooming the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, let us not only relax the forces straining on the ends of the rope, let us take measures for untying this knot...
...time it looked as if the dispute would be settled amicably. That hope rested in a compromise proposed by the powerful Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million British workers. If the government would relax its Stage III anti-inflation guidelines for the miners, said the T.U.C., other unions would refrain from using it as a precedent for demanding raises above the 10% guideline limit. But after a perfunctory meeting with the T.U.C. last week. Heath flatly rejected the compromise...