And they wanted nothing more than to be loose from their parents and to board the train, where they would sing for hours.

WSJ: Grand Central 100-Year Anniversary: A Century of Connections

Unlike the multinational chemical and junk food manufactures who oppose PROP 37 because they fear loss of profits from the rejection of their never proven safe GMOs, we have nothing to financially gain or loose by the outcome of PROP 37.

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But by far the majority of girls limit their provocative activities to nothing more brazen than ruzu sokusu (loose socks).

CNN: A SOCK TO THE SYSTEM

Still, Mr Reston has a timely warning against loose talk of new crusades today: nothing is more likely to stir up new Saladins or on the rebound, you could add, new Lionhearts.

ECONOMIST: The medieval crusades

The group is "nothing more than a loose umbrella - and a broke one", according to one well-informed source.

BBC: Solving Somalia's aid conundrum

Plenty of those flats were bought with credit but loan-to-value ratios were, many bankers claim, conservative, while standards are nothing like as loose as in America.

ECONOMIST: China's banks

But philosophical arguments about the merits of central banking have nothing to do with the practical question facing Ben Bernanke right now: is monetary policy currently too tight or too loose?

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