Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coping with the specter of AIDS is particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...
...counseling. The remaining employees gamely cheered one another by wearing buttons that read IT'S O.K. TO SMILE. One of the thousands who left their jobs was Norris, who gave up the chairman's post in January 1986 at age 74 to let his successor Robert Price have a freer hand in dismantling the founder's overgrown dream...
...parents may be confounded by the fact that children are blatantly freer than they are themselves. A subculture of young people slide about the house, so much more alert than their parents to changes in music, movies, codes of dress; quick as terriers; loose as geese; all things that age is not. The power of parents lies in experience and work. The power of children lies in the freedom from those things. Parents, who cannot retrieve that sort of freedom, may regard it with bewilderment, even resentment. They keep their distance...
...Commerce Department had charged that Japan was "dumping" chips at money-losing prices to gain market share. Japan also promised to open its semiconductor market to U.S. companies, although no precise sales goals were set. Said President Reagan: "This agreement represents an important step toward freer and more equitable world trade...
Garcia's swift move to crush the jail riots reflected the demands of Peru's armed forces, which want a freer hand to deal with the Shining Path. But the military's attempts last week to conceal evidence of its excesses only embarrassed the government. Soldiers sealed off the prisons and buried dead inmates at night, despite assurances from First Vice President Luis Alberto Sanchez that the bodies would be delivered to their families...