Word: relaxation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even Barbie can't keep up that whirlwind pace indefinitely. This season she has a place of her own, the "dream house" ($115) where she can ponder the more serious questions she faces as an adult. Barbie can cook dinner in her microwave oven, relax in her beauty bath, or read on her single...
...never had any doubts about the use of power, since they had seen how weakness invited aggression and defiance. President Carter, and a lot of others, thought he might modify that idea a bit. His notion that he could reduce our garrisons abroad, cut our defense spending and relax our vigilance over the world's troublemakers, like Fidel Castro, is surely being mocked by today's events. The betting here is that Carter is among those who have changed the most...
...takes some effort to be annoyed by the repetition, because The '80s--edited and written by many of the same people who brought you Not The New York Times--is an ideal excuse to put of writing your Gov paper, to relax with when it's too gauche to drink beer and watch football with your undershirt on, junk food for the intellectual cynic. If read slowly, selectively, this compendium of facetiae should beat just about any conceivable true-to-life rehashes of the grey cripple of a decade that will limp (or roll) off to oblivion in just...
...relations with South Korea will definitely grow stronger if the new regime does relax social and political controls and move toward genuine democracy, Reischauer predicted...
...opened the door to the possibility of things getting better," Reischauer said. But he emphasized that it is still not clear who has seized power; and if no clear-cut leader emerges, or if the leadership acts unwisely, "the whole thing could go to pieces." New leaders could relax restraints too quickly, or not relax them at all, Reidchauer said...