Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the current mood in Britain is not likely to lead to negotiations soon, the wisest course for the U.S. might be to address demands that Latin Americans have been making for decades: more economic aid from the U.S. and freer access to U.S. markets. Says former CIA Director William Colby: "There is nothing terribly new in Americans choosing their European friends over their Latin friends. But Latin Americans will look to their own economic interests first." Says Robert Wesson of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: "There is little to be done but say 'sorry about...
Several new releases try a freer portrayal of homosexuality...
...dean of a leading medical school said recently. "The relationship with a doctor is different than the one you have with a plumber. "The state must be freer to protect that relationship...
...prominent intellectuals and opposition politicians whom Sadat had arrested last September, but invited a number of them to his office to talk. It is expected that, in time, most of the 4,000 dissidents now being held will be released. Some Egyptians have observed that the country seems freer now than it has in years, though it is still under a state of emergency. Cairo newspapers, tightly controlled during the Sadat era, have begun cautiously printing articles about government corruption and other once taboo subjects...
...from criticizing the powers that be in sports but are airily bolder than news reporters in commenting on and criticizing the players and coaches they cover. They don't need to worry about the political clout, or the dignity, of people they show (dignity in hockey?). They are freer to rearrange reality. Roone Arledge invented prime-time Olympics-singling out anticipated stars to build up in advance, juggling tapes, and the clock to show the most dramatic events at peak hours. Purists may object that Arledge's rewed-up Olympics test like the sprawly Olympics of actuality...