Word: freer
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...technology of surveillance and intrusion now available, by the data banks, credit checks and mandatory drug tests on the job. Tom Hayden, the '60s activist who led the Students for a Democratic Society and is now a California assemblyman, takes a slightly mellower view. "I think this country is freer than I thought true in the 1960s," he says. He worries about the perennial American conflict between individualism and community responsibility. "At this point," he thinks, "we've tipped too far toward private interests." As Hayden says, the '60s were incalculably important in defining the meaning of freedom...
...hunter who wanders over state lines--say between Idaho and Montana--while chasing elk has committed a felony. The NRA has made much of such idiocies in our gun laws in its efforts to roll them back. Cleaning up details like this, and allowing hunting weapons a little freer rein is arguably not such a "cave in" to the minority...
...music and machine. Its only flaw is that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first 18 minutes of the work, the technology was still largely untried. What Repons needs now is to live up even better to its name, to offer a greater, freer and more apparent interplay among conductor, performers and computers. Characteristically, Boulez intends to keep adding to the piece, so perhaps that will happen in the next installment, scheduled for a London premiere...
Shultz's Eastern journey had been timed to take advantage of the postsummit mood of goodwill between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In the past, East bloc countries have felt freer to deal with the West during periods of detente. But loosening the Soviet grip can be risky. Whenever East European countries have tilted too far to the West, the Soviets have forcibly jerked them back, as they did to Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Poland...
...Ottawa government has reversed the traditional Canadian protectionist stance in favor of freer trade, Mulroney said, in part because of the challenge posed by Canada's European and Asian competitors. "Maybe it won't work," he observed. "Maybe it will turn out that protectionist sentiment is too strong. Free trade is not without its perils. But liberalized trade brings more wealth, not less, and a stronger economy will help guarantee the political sovereignty of Canada...