Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could debate at length the relative merits of Humphrey and Nixon. Humphrey, once relieved of the burdens of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, might be able to lead us out of war...On the other hand, Nixon might be freer to disavow the Vietnam policies of the past...
...socializing outside of high school. They arrive, well, inexperienced. Extreme excellence is abnormal in most high schools; you get excluded. So when they get a girlfriend, hey, they want to hold on and tell everybody. It becomes kind of a habit. I guess things are freer at a liberal arts school in general, and that would go hand-in-hand with the social atmosphere...
...Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the official who had negotiated the Gdansk agreement on behalf of the government. With characteristic bluntness, Walesa complained that the authorities, contrary to their promises, were denying the independent labor movement adequate opportunity to publicize its existence. Jagielski indicated that he would try to arrange freer access to the press and radio. In return, he asked that the unions mobilize the workers in support of economic recovery. One sign of the apparent cooperation between authorities and unions so far: Walesa and six other former strike leaders were named to a special 25-member committee charged with...
Polish television, which rarely shows Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, found it expedient to broadcast a sermon of his, perhaps because of its shushing appeal for moderation. Since then, however, the government has allowed some freer discussion in the press and on television as well as radio broadcasts of church services, an encouraging turn that may prove temporary. "Don't go yet," a Polish airlines clerk said to the Times's John Vinocur as he bought a ticket to leave Gdansk. "It's good if somebody's watching...
...were ready to support a Soviet resolution along just these lines at UNESCO'S 1976 general conference, in Nairobi, to give the international press its first real fright. The proposal was shelved at the last minute. Instead, the MacBride Commission was appointed to study ways of "achieving a freer and more balanced flow of information." The commission's report is now out; eventually it will be published in 13 languages, including Bengali and Swahili. It contains 82 recommendations, embedded in 160,000 words of glutinous UNESCOese. (MacBride himself was appalled by the draft-some pages were given...