Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EIGHT years ago I had just turned 13. I was in the seventh grade, and I skipped band every day to sit around in free period reading science fiction. I remember reading a lot of Harlan Ellison. It was the age when "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream" can seem a profound statement of the human condition...
...General, tried to blunt the latest attack with newspaper ads saying that "enough is enough." Said Brennan Dawson, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute: "The report represents an escalation in the antismoking campaign." Surgeon General Koop certainly hopes so. His stated goal is to make the U.S. a "smoke-free society by the year...
...rent office space in his district. A minimum of $67,000 is provided for office, telephones and travel back and forth between Washington and home base. Senators receive larger allocations in these categories. In addition, members of both houses have the privilege of sending unlimited free "franked" mail to their constituents (at a total cost of $113 million in 1988) and the use of recording studios located in the Capitol to prepare spots for broadcast to the folks back home...
Basketball: Yale freshman Ed Petersen was named the season's first Ivy League Rookie of the Week. Petersen led the Elis with 22 points in their 83-80 win over Brown. Petersen has a 93.5 accuracy rate from the free throw line...
...problems of drug abuse, homelessness and illiteracy have never seemed more menacing. Instead of vigorously attacking these problems, Reagan has continued to espouse his laissez-faire philosophy that the market or private individuals will solve them, leaving only national defense to the government. So far, this free-market approach has generated mostly record greed and selfishness, rather than solutions...