Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collect their prize. But when they do, they are informed that in order to "qualify," they must join an expensive travel club and pay "handling fees" of $100 or more, or buy a companion ticket at an inflated price. After the extra costs are added, such "free" trips usually cost more than if they had been booked through a travel agent...
...bound America's 6 million Jews to Israel's 3.6 million. Together with their fears of Arab animosity, the connection has maintained Jewish solidarity for decades. But the nature of that unity is being redefined. With many Israelis openly yearning for a change in direction, American Jews now feel free to help them bring it about...
...answer, in part, goes back to the famous Second Amendment of the American Constitution, which the N.R.A. keeps brandishing like Holy Writ. "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," it reads, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...
Always a numbers man, Rose was at the vanguard of baseball's economic revolt. His original ambition, "to be the first $100,000 singles hitter," sounds quaint now. In the late 1970s he made an auction out of the new free- agent system, and for $3.2 million over four years stopped off in Philadelphia to show the Phillies...
...subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits will be going to produce new public benefits: irrigation systems that use less water and produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down to a fair level as other irrigation districts try to get in on the action. Beyond that, someone has to pick up the bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles...