Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned out to be an unsatisfactory proposition for most voters. The newly mandated Chancellor is expected to cut where he can, weather the cries of anguish and wait for the beginning of the economic turn-around that many experts now expect...
...refer, of course, to the continuing debate over whether meetings of the Standing Committee should be open or closed. As representative to the Committee on College Life. I voted to keep the meetings closed, feeling that this would facilitate freer discussion and make the meetings more productive. All but two of the members presents were agreed in this opinion. Since that time, the question has been discussed again and again, and the same points brought up every time...
North House Master Hanna Hastings, a committee member, agreed, saying. "The group decided that we would feel more uninhibited and freer to express our opinions if we were a smaller group...
This is the new society that Margaret Atwood strives to find in Dancing Girls, her new collection of short stories. Her vision, however, lacks the optimism of Friedan's fostering nervousness instead. At times her characters catch glimpses of a freer society, but they cannot transcend their mundane and cruel provincialism...
...clients, Syria and the P.L.O.? Haig has learned to listen carefully for imbedded assumptions in questions he is asked. Haig: "No one is pleased when circumstances involve the loss of lives, and innocent lives." The final question concerned Kirkpatrick, who seems to think that her presidential ties grant her freer speech. The question to Haig was blunt: "Why is she still in the Administration?" Haig ho-ho-hoed his way out of that one, with some words about those "personal peccadilloes that tantalize you gentlemen so much...