Word: freer
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Wrong Residents. Gibraltarians feel that life under British rule is far freer and more prosperous than life in Franco's Spain, have developed a British sense of fair play and justice and an almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor Spanish. Some are Sephardic Jews originally expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; others fled Genoa in the 1790s to escape the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars; many came from Malta to seek work in the British dockyards. Over the years, they have developed into a surprisingly homogeneous population...
...years ago, because young Americans are tending to marry at an earlier age. But they are the focus of a major part of advertising and salesmanship, the direct target of new approaches in housing and entertainment, the considerable despair of some established institutions, and the apostolate of a freer code of mores for the young. In some quarters, they are called-or like to call themselves-the "swingles...
...freedom is the more radical for the single girl. Because of her increased economic competence and society's more permissive moral standards, today's swinging single is free in a myriad of ways her mother never dreamed of-freer morally from the restraints of home and the strictures of religion, freer economically from dependence on family allowance, freer geographically from the confines of the home town, and freer sexually through her increased security against unwanted pregnancy. Today's maiden is often assumed to be less concerned with being chaste than being chased-and caught, perhaps often-before...
According to her dialogue coach, Ruth Roberts, who has known Bergman since her Hollywood arrival in 1939: "She is so much freer than when she first came - she has the inner security of a woman who's living life fully...
...that were not enough, the company expects the just-negotiated Kennedy Round tariff cuts to squeeze its earnings further. Many U.S. chemicals have long been protected by unusually high import duties, and in order to win European agreement for freer trade in such fields as farm produce, tobacco and aluminum, U.S. negotiators agreed to hefty reductions in chemical levies. With those blows, plus a 30% loss in earnings after the Government forced the company to disgorge its 63 million-share holding of General Motors, the price of Du Pont stock has fallen almost 50% from its 1964 high...