Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own bodies. It is real, material oppression of women within the law, within our economy, within our social customs that is the issue. Images represent the form, and not the substance, of such oppression, and to pretend that the problem can be solved by violating others' rights of free expression and privacy is an irresponsible and dangerous argument...
...Yeah, whenever someone called, they'd fade out in a minute and we'd have to say `Hurry up! Quick, tell us where you are!'" adds Bell. "Obviously, we needed a new phone. So someone subscribed to Time Magazine and got a free phone. It works much better...
...Bribes, graft and expenses-paid vacations are never talked about on Capitol Hill. Honorariums, campaign contributions and per diem travel reimbursements are. Cash gifts, even of $100,000, are not automatically illegal, as long as they are disclosed and the giver has no direct interest in legislation. Neither is free use of posh apartments and expensive cars...
Mallick, who has known the Speaker for some 30 years, hired Wright's wife Betty in 1979 as an adviser. The job description was hazy, but the salary was $18,000 a year. Perks included a rent-free apartment and a Cadillac. In 1981, for the same salary and benefits, Betty Wright went to work for Mallightco, an investment company that the Wrights had formed with Mallick and his wife. Betty Wright also borrowed $75,000 from Mallightco. After she stopped working for the company in 1984, the Wrights paid $21.67 per diem for the apartment when they used...
...involvement and indifference, animosity and affection, pity and fear, longing and disgust. It is a tale of how the U.S. tried to re-create itself in the malleable Philippines, an accidental unit of 7,000 islands with little in common save Roman Catholicism and an ambiguous urge to be free. It is also the story of how the U.S., though it succeeded in imbuing the archipelago with aspects of its likeness, failed at imparting its democratic spirit. In In Our Image, the sins of the creator are amply reflected in the faults of its creature...