Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they do should find nothing wrong with that. After all, as one Harvard student's wife said, "If you're working all day to support your family and you come home tired at night to a husband who's studying, you just want to get out of there and relax with the girls." Relaxing with "the group" is something women can do as well as men. And if feminists are right, that women should naturally prefer the company of other women, then this way is as good...
...make social relationships ends in themselves seems almost sure to destroy the purpose in friendships. Playing bridge and going to fashion shows are frivolous occupations. Not wrong and silly, but formless. There is an enormous difference between attending a fashion show (if you like them) with a friend to relax, and relaxing at a fashion show in order to make friends...
...tente crisis could hardly have come at a worse moment for the allies. The arms talks are viewed as a litmus of Soviet intentions: How far is Moscow willing to go in pulling back part of its huge army poised on the border of Western Europe in order to relax tensions? The talks will also be a test of whether the Atlantic Alliance has the cohesion and strength to engage in a long, hard and potentially divisive negotiating process without splintering into rival factions...
Busy Weekend. Of life in the White House during the tumultuous weekend that brought the firing of Archibald Cox, the resignation of Elliot Richardson and the dismissal of William Ruckelshaus, Julie understates: "Well, it was a busy weekend for my dad. But in the evening we did relax, and Friday night turned out to be a kind of party." Julie and David had invited another young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Milligan (he works in the Commerce Department), to the White House. "My parents were up in the solarium and when they heard our voices, they came hurrying down...
Part of the reason for the rate drop is that the Federal Reserve Board has gingerly loosened its supertight money policy in recent weeks, though Chairman Arthur Burns insists that the board is not yet ready to greatly relax its reins on credit. Even more important in making borrowing cheaper has been the weakening in loan demand as the economy declines...