Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the symposium was titled "Free Speech and the First Amendment," the five journalists and politicians spent the hour-and-a-half chatting about current events in a discussion moderated by Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller...
...lousy with Soviets, who are lousy only at baseball. Three more hockey players from the vaunted Red Army team resigned their commissions last week. By the grace of a fresh understanding between Moscow and the National Hockey League, stars Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov are now free to negotiate with the teams that drafted them: the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames (which already employs Sergei Priakin). Only one Soviet applicant has felt the need to defect. Alexander Mogilny saw Buffalo and just couldn't live anywhere else. Shrugging everything off, Soviet authorities have invited...
...Experiments conducted in caves, like the one in New Mexico, and others in special laboratories purposely remove all such cues. In Follini's module the temperature was a constant 69 degreesF, and the only illumination was artificial. The aim of such experiments is to get the body to "free-run" and see what sort of patterns it establishes...
Fairness also has little to do with the system of guandao, or official profiteering, that permeates Chinese society. On a small scale, leaders at all levels routinely use their positions to obtain free restaurant meals or theater tickets. In a grander manner, officials buy scarce raw materials such as coal and timber at low, subsidized prices and sell them on the open market for handsome profits...
...year when it appeared that he could be defeated, Foley's staff urged him to blunt Republican attacks on himself as a free-spending liberal by dropping his support of a costly health bill. He refused. Why? someone asked. It was the kind of answer rare in the annals of politics. "Because," Foley answered, "if there's one vote I want to get in this election...