Word: relaxing
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...currencies in the playground all spring. To keep their own currency up, the Europeans especially have felt pressure to hike their own rates along with Greenspan, thus endangering the nice little expansion they've got going over in euroland. Now everybody from Wall Street to Wittenberg figures they can relax a little, because Uncle Alan has maybe one more hike in him -- a quarter-point at the end of June -- before he settles in to watch Campaign 2000 on TV. His job, after all, is safe for another three years...
...additional land in Allston might allow Harvard to relax the tension on the Cambridge side of the river, Grogan says...
...sunny day, I sat out by the Charles with a beach towel and a cool drink and watched the crew boats go by. Then I thought: who am I kidding? Through my four years at Harvard I've never had time to sit by the river and relax: I've done as much sunbathing as a sightless mole. I've heard that if you sit out by the river long enough, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 comes along and hands out computer science problem sets so you'll get back to work. So instead of sunbathing...
While President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision to step down means a chance to relax for the notoriously hard-working president, the work is just beginning for those around him responsible for choosing his successor...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...