Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current Council session, Walsh has spent much of his time arguing that the city's largest developer-Harvard-is getting too much of a free ride...
...attractive feature of LBOs is that they give managers a sizable chunk of equity in newly structured companies. By using borrowed money to buy out the stockholders, executives can cash in their old shares at a profit even as they become owners of their firms. The managers are then free to sell parts of the business at a handsome profit. The ultimate payoff comes when they put their companies back on the market. The sale of well-run corporations can return up to 100 times the amount of a manager's original investment. With investors lured by such prospects...
Next day the government announced that Nelson Mandela, 70, will not return to jail when he finishes hospital treatment for tuberculosis. But the spiritual head of the banned African National Congress will not be set free, either. He will be transferred to what the government described as "suitable, comfortable and secure" living accommodations -- possibly a house on prison grounds. By freeing Mandela in stages, Botha apparently hopes to avoid having the ailing black leader die in jail and thus become a martyr...
Anderson, who was once a sheriff in a county like this one, is much more the compassionate pragmatist. He wants a quiet investigation, conducted through sidelong glances, little toe-scuffing chats with the locals and the free play of his instincts. He can kick into angry overdrive with a grin still on his face, and is not above conducting a shy, country-boy courtship of a key witness (Frances McDormand) to get on with his job, which, as he sees it, is simply to find the criminals, not change the world...
...Canada, only one month ago, the Liberal Party was moribund. It was running last, 14 points down in the polls, behind even a minor third party. Then it suddenly found its voice as the fierce defender of the nation against the American threat, disguised this time as a free-trade agreement. The Liberals turned the election into a referendum on patriotism. That did not win them the election -- though the left would have won had it not divided its 52% of the vote between two parties -- but it did save them from catastrophe. They doubled their representation in Parliament...