Word: loosest
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...Britain, with Europe's loosest labor laws and no minimum wage, shows that flexibility is no cure-all: its jobless rate of 10.3% is similar to Italy's, which has some of Europe's tightest worker protections. No one in Europe much admires the American model, which is equated with slums, homelessness, crime and drugs. As they see it, the U.S. job-creation machine of the 1980s produced millions of "working poor" in service jobs and cost low-skilled workers a 20% drop in the real wages. Europe, through its high minimum wages and other rules, saw a rise...
...movement only in the loosest sense of the word, and its members are disparate. A philosophical base of sorts has been laid by Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, an investigative history of marijuana and its uses. Groups like the Cannabis Action Network have brought youth and an environmentalist ethic into the trend. And the new film The Money Tree, about a pot grower, gives hempsters a movie to call their...
...loosest loose ends is that investigators are not yet sure even what kind of explosive went off in the van. Early reports had them concluding from traces of nitrates found at the blast scene that dynamite had been used. But James Ronay, explosives-unit chief at the FBI laboratory in Washington, says the presence of nitrates in the rubble was "meaningless"; nitrates are contained in exhaust fumes, paint, cleaning materials, foodstuffs and many other substances. Nonetheless, his best guess is that the explosive was in fact dynamite or something similar; the pattern of blast damage is more consistent with dynamite...