Word: freer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli government is in a greater hurry. Despite the Qana debacle, Peres was determined to keep fighting as long as Hizballah continued its rocket salvos. The Israelis still hoped for an agreement shutting down those attacks and giving the Israeli army a freer hand against Hizballah. In return, as part of a peace treaty with Lebanon, Israel would be willing to discuss a pullout back inside Israel's borders if Hizballah were disarmed and no violence had occurred for some specified period...
...vote, is likely to withstand a veto anyway. In a few weeks, reports Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne, workers will begin posting signs raising the state speed limit to 70 mph over 77,000 miles of Texas highways. A number of like-minded Western states are giving motorists freer rein: Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming will raise the limit to 75 mph, while Oklahoma and South Dakota will set theirs at 70. The best state for Unser wannabes? Montana, where the only limit will be how fast eight cylinders can move...
...journey through the new world reordering" is what TIME executive editor Joe Ferrer called the itinerary for the first of our 11 Newstours to circle the globe. We chose destinations that would let us explore the dynamics of countries facing tough transitions, primarily from socialism to freer markets and from autocracy to greater democracy. After a briefing in Washington by CIA Director John Deutch and five other senior officials, the Newstour went to Cuba, Russia, India, Vietnam and Hong Kong before heading home. During a period when isolationism is rising in the U.S., we wanted this Newstour to emphasize Time...
...Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--he did that long before Muhammad Ali was born. On the other hand, he was a fine painter but never a great one, though some of his decorative work--conspicuously, the fabulous gold-on-leather Peacock Room in Washington's Freer Gallery--rose to greatness as decoration...
...Nobody knows why; Whistler may not have been sure himself. He feared not being honored as a prophet in his own country, but in fact his work was eagerly sought by American collectors and portrait clients, some of whom were all but obsessed by it; the Detroit millionaire Charles Freer owned 40 of his paintings and hundreds of his drawings. Moreover, he was a prophet--Americans imitated him, especially photographers. After 1900, Alfred Stieglitz and his circle labored to give their prints the evocative blur, the tonal harmony, the self-conscious aestheticism of Whistler's night and twilight pictures...