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...pressures on him, he admits that he does not get to spend enough time with his actress wife Kim. The work "is long and hard and at times gets very tough," he says. So what does the trainer do to relax? When he gets too edgy with his earthbound heavenly bodies, Isaacson, a licensed pilot, sometimes just takes a plane up for a couple of hours of solitary communion with the real stars. --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Michael Riley/Los Angeles
...commercial bank to buy into a mainland counterpart since the 1949 communist takeover, and it is now the largest foreign financial institution there. But it is limited by regulation to owning just a minority stake in two mainland banks. One of Cheng's goals is to encourage Beijing to relax foreign-ownership regulations, part of a broader effort to help write China's banking history. --By Chaim Estulin/Hong Kong
According to the lawsuit, Mayer reviewed the X-ray himself in Feb. 2001 and then told Gould to “go home and relax...
...countries like Australia don't want to eat whales, fine. But they have no right to impose their value judgments on us." JOJI MORISHITA, Japanese delegate to the International Whaling Commission. At its annual conference this week, pro-whaling Japan hopes to gain enough votes to relax a 20-year-old ban on the hunting of humpbacks and fins
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...