Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reassuring to learn that there are a number of parents who, "believing they can do it better," teach their children at home. I have been teaching two of mine since September, and it has been a rewarding experience for both the children and me. In the atmosphere of comparative freedom, lack of censure, and individual attention at home, I have seen them flourish in academic and other ways...
...Iranian cities. Today, four-fifths of older Iranian women wear the chador, as do an increasing number of younger women. But today's chador does not always fulfill its intended purpose: some are quite diaphanous. In an ironic display of Iranian women's desires for both more freedom and a return to traditional ways, many of them are worn over blue jeans...
...blame "foreign saboteurs" for Iran's troubles is nonsense, Motamedi insists: "This is a heaven-sent movement. What we want is an Islamic republic. The aim is freedom and true independence...
...rational place, their claims on it would be small. But the fact is they do make claims, and strong ones. Kermit, rueful and dithered frees a part of our own natures so absurd and defenseless that we would never let a human actor hold it in his hands. This freedom is wonderful, but there is a price What these puppets mean to the millions of people who have watched them is al most embarrassing to express, because the feeling they evoke is nothing less than love . ? John Skow
Third, create conditions for companies to earn, and guarantee them freedom from government intervention or expropriation. As Killeen puts it: "We don't have a class-struggle mentality or a soak-the-rich attitude because we haven't had many rich. But we're very much an ownership country. The vast majority of people own their own homes or farms." Ireland claims to be one of the few countries that guarantee the right to private property in their constitutions and really mean...