Word: freer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hopes for freer trade got a boost last week when 90 countries meeting in Geneva agreed to draw up an agenda for a new round of global trade talks. The plan calls for the discussions to start next year under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The negotiations, which could last several years, will be aimed at reducing the barriers that nations have erected against exports...
Cambridge Peace Commissioner Jeb Brugmann hailed Dukakis's order, saying, "It offers a freer atmosphere for refugees in Cambridge to go ahead and seek services they need...
...from their embassy in Rome, Vitali Yurtchenko, who vanished without trace earlier this month. There are no signs that either man has defected to the West. Under discussion at the seminar is a plan to study the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. The project would require a freer exchange of information than Moscow would be prepared to accept...
Experts on both sides of the Pacific have welcomed the liberalization of mainland China in the last decade. One Harvard senior, an admitted product of the recent enlightenment, epitomizes the freer inquiry and use of Western knowledge that China wants to harness...
...Service rules governing the tax-exempt status of organizations. In 1953 Howard Hughes created the Medical Institute and gave it Hughes Aircraft as its only asset. This made the company accountable only to the institute's trustees, of which Hughes was the only one. That made Hughes Aircraft far freer than publicly owned companies to limit dividends and invest its profits as it saw fit in research and development...