Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obituary, makeup editor Charlotte Quiggle faced a different kind of revision. Her job is to develop a plan for the sequence of all the editorial and advertising pages each week so they make a smoothly readable magazine. TIME's advertising staff immediately told Japanese advertisers that they were free, if they wished, to cancel ads in that issue as a mark of deference. Several Japanese companies did so, leaving three blank pages. Within hours Quiggle rejuggled the book, as it is called, into a successful new combination. "Every week brings a unique set of problems," she says. "The trick...
Even Margaret Thatcher's devotion to the free market has some limits, it seems. Reacting to newspaper reports that poor Turkish peasants are being paid to go to London and give up a kidney for transplant, the British Prime Minister said that "the sale of kidneys or any organs of the body is utterly repugnant." Emergency legislation is now being prepared for swift approval by Parliament to make sure that capitalism does not perform its celebrated magic in the market for human organs...
...better racial balance. The problem, critics argue, is that parents have no say, and even bad schools are rewarded with full student bodies and tax revenues. That is beginning to change. In locations as diverse as New York's East Harlem, San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., parents are now free to select what they judge to be the best public school in their district. Minnesota goes even further. It is phasing in a plan that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state. More than 20 other states have passed or are considering bills...
...newspaper sells no ads, and annual subscriptions are cheap: free to residents, $10 outside the walls. The state pays for it, and the warden is publisher. But Taliaferro's best readers are the men inside, the line officers and inmates. "You've got to walk the line; you'd not believe how thin it is," Taliaferro says...
...pulse. He is a leader of his captive constituency: vice president of the Jaycees' Star of the North prison chapter, a leader of a black-culture group and a big editorial voice inside these walls. "I'm a black redneck," he says with a casual smile. If he were free, he'd have voted for George Bush for President even though he thought his candidate didn't understand prison furloughs...