Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet students, accustomed to a free educational system, said the high cost of American colleges is one of the most surprising aspects of life...
...individual's fundamental privacy and liberty right to be free of government extends to medical treatment decisions," the legal brief nobly argued. But when this "fundamental right" clashed with the income of doctors, the AMA chose the low road...
...doctors agree with all of the AMA's actions. Many support Medicare reform, and most are adamantly pro-choice. Physicians across the country devote thousands of hours to free service, and the vast majority do not overcharge Medicare patients...
...Lebanese and French press reported that pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon have threatened action against France for reneging on an alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility, as part of a campaign to rid Africa of "all military colonial forces...
...more important, it is not clear that he has a detailed vision of what kind of system he wants to replace the old one with -- a free market economy, a form of democratic socialism or simply a more efficient state monopoly. At last week's meeting, Gorbachev dismissed all claims "that we are unable to resolve problems facing the country without introducing capitalism into the economy." So far, though, perestroika has been a series of slogans rather than a well-structured set of programs. American Sovietologist Abraham Becker of the Rand Corp. concludes that Gorbachev came to power with...