Word: free
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baggage, and one airplane in flight last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger. "We saw it leaning...
From the political master he served loyally for eight years, Bush has come to appreciate the value of symbolism. By now it is innate: telegraphing decay is not the way to lead the free world. So it was that last Friday the new President said, "We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on earth," the accuracy of his certitude being irrelevant to the occasion. He even looked good doing it. "I can't explain it," Barbara Bush once said, "but . . . the camera shrinks him and makes him seem small." Not last week. Perhaps...
...every day." At yet another gathering, he said the country should "work together to bring light to shine on all of God's children," a notion revisited movingly in the Inaugural when he charged the nation to help "the homeless," the "children who have nothing and those who cannot free themselves of enslavement to whatever addiction -- drugs, welfare, demoralization -- that rules the slums...
ETHICS IN AMERICA (PBS, starting Jan. 31, 10 p.m. on most stations). What is an individual's responsibility to the homeless? How far can lawyers go in defending a client? These and other knotty questions will be probed in a ten- week series of free-form debates, introduced by Fred Friendly...
...sometimes sexist teachers," says Paulos, himself a victim of inept instruction. "They feel that there are mathematical minds and nonmathematical minds." The result of that misconception is a "gap that threatens eventually to lead either to unfounded and crippling anxieties or to impossible and economically paralyzing demands for risk-free guarantees...