Word: freedom
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...first page, the personal-credit crisis, which he sees as our citizens' response to Bush's call to defeat the terrorists by going shopping. "So a million homes are snatched from hard-working Americans!" he writes, sarcasm dripping from the page. "THAT'S A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR FREEDOM...
...first companies to sell lever-voting technology created a national ad campaign in 1959 called "Behind the Freedom Curtain." "You will register and count your own vote!" The ad proclaimed."Mechanical counters cannot get tired, cannot get cranky, cannot forget!" Evidently, the lever technology needed such aggressive commercials - fifteen states that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929, calling them too complicated, too expensive and too difficult to keep in working order. In the early 1960s, University of California at Berkley professor Joseph Harris suggested applying to ballots the punch-card method...
...that she wants to be a lawyer or a doctor when she grows up. But the students’ trip up to Boston was not just confined to the gates of Harvard Yard. They also traveled to Salem, Mass. to celebrate Halloween and, on Saturday, the group walked the Freedom Trail, attended a college information session run by Harvard’s Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Programs, and went candle pin bowling. On Sunday, the students concluded their trip with a visit to Lexington and Concord before heading back home. All of the students interviewed said they enjoyed their trip...
...right not to vote represents our freedom not to define ourselves around politics–the freedom, in fact, not to follow politics at all. It is the choice to govern one’s own life directly—not by way of Washington—as well as the ability to refrain from interfering in the lives of others. It is the freedom to withhold our approval from government...
There is no question as to which candidate is qualified to serve this great country. McCain is ready to stand up and fight for our country and our freedom. He won't just be "present" while looking cool and working on his next book deal. Sharon Peterson, CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MICH...