As Thomas Hoban, a food sociologist at North Carolina State University, points out, Americans generally have a more relaxed attitude towards food than, say, the French, for whom it is a cultural matter.
In some cases, specific departments or organizations may have a more relaxed internal culture in which workers swear without anyone batting an eye.
But if anything good has come out of all this, it might just be that the old Sudanese government ways of secrecy and stifling bureaucracy have relaxed a little under the pressure of an impatient, watching world.
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For all its benefits, the state of being relaxed may have a significant downside when it comes to making smart purchasing decisions.
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Though the financial markets have recently taken a slightly more relaxed view of Argentina's problems, under the country's rigid currency-board scheme any firm recovery from its current lengthy recession depends on inflows of money from abroad.
How then have Messrs Aguiar and Hurst uncovered a more relaxed America, where leisure has actually increased?
"The time you think that you're in and suddenly the ball does something, so you've got to have a good laugh about it and stay relaxed because it's not under your control, " Butt said.
In response to the reforms, many Western nations have relaxed sanctions against Burma and begun a process of engagement.
This requirement should be relaxed if you have or adopt a baby or are taking care of a sick relative.
School officials in Los Angeles, for example, relaxed a policy that would have required students to repeat certain grades if they failed to pass end-of-year tests.
It was not the best of facilities - my locker door was busted, the shallow pool was excessively chlorinated and there was nothing hot about the hot tub - but floating in a rooftop pool before getting on my flight capped off what was the most fun I have ever had in an airport and led to a deep, relaxed sleep on the plane.
Politicians have applied a fiscal stimulus and, to keep housing finance flowing, relaxed prudential controls on government-sponsored mortgage lenders.
All of these heirs also have something in common that makes them appealing to a modern, more relaxed generation.
But taxi drivers requested that this be relaxed so that they could have their medical examination with a GP that charges less.
Other researchers believe chocolate cravings have something to do with serotonin, a brain chemical that makes us feel relaxed.
Therefore Congress is likely to relax these provisions after 2020, just as they have repeatedly relaxed the legally required cuts in physician fees on more than a dozen occasions since 2003.
But if the politicians and regulators do not take a more relaxed attitude to restructuring, European media firms will have little chance of growing strong enough to compete successfully with the big American companies.
The fact that people are saying, well, perfectly relaxed, over half the respondents are happy to marry or have a relationship with somebody from a different race, very, very positive.
In these areas, the Tories have been the traditional enemies, and Lib Dems are relaxed about doing deals with a modernised Labour Party.
That was certainly the case this morning, when he appeared as relaxed as I have ever seen him in the build-up to a fight.
Palestinian tax revenues have been held back in the past, though Israel has usually relaxed the restrictions after a few weeks.
Their arguments are bolstered by the fact that so far, despite the cross-Strait flights and the new, "relaxed" atmosphere, Taiwan's exports to China have actually fallen as a share of China's total imports this year as compared to last year.
But as part of a wider reform programme introduced by President Thein Sein, the old media rules have gradually been relaxed.
You are a liberal person, I am a conservative person, but elections have consequences and that's just America, said the relaxed Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.
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He came down for breakfast in a great mood, happily chatting on any number of subjects and appeared as relaxed as I have seen him at any point this week.
For the time being most (though not all) regulators are relaxed about all this: bad debts have been rising, but slowly, and only in a few areas such as lending to commodity-linked industries.
On the blocks I have a smile on my face, I'm not that serious any more, I'm racing more relaxed.
The authors say that, even if the rules are relaxed to allow emissions to a level associated with a 3C temperature rise, there will still have to be limits on fossil fuel burning.
When the rehearsal was over and we were feeling more relaxed, she offered me and Eleanor a piece of advice that remains one of the best I have ever received.
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