Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--More than 200,000 people filled the streets of Prague yesterday, demanding free elections and the resignation of its hard-line leader in the largest protest ever in this Communist nation...
...auto sales are declining, in part because of a slowing economy. Sales of imported and domestic autos in the U.S. fell 3.8% during the first nine months of this year, to 7.8 million cars. This year the Big Three kept sales artificially stimulated by such incentives as interest-free financing and rebates of as much...
...longer very important. He had the nerve to tell me that the Americans and the Russians share the same identity because they are white. Well, that's fine. But if Moscow is looking to Washington for high technology, Japan is the country that has it. The Soviet Union is free to choose between Japan and the U.S. for high technology, just as we are free to choose between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In fact, the U.S. can't make reliable one-megabit chips. Japan is the only country that can mass-produce high-performance semiconductors. When I said...
...example, layers of polysilicon and a type of glass that can be removed with acid are deposited on a silicon base. A hole for the hub is lined with the glass and then filled with polysilicon. When the glass is etched away, the hub remains and the arm is free to spin around its axis...
Whatever the reason, Dukakis' free fall was remarkable. His cherished Massachusetts miracle was in tatters. In a rare admission of fault, he told an aide, "I missed the politics of it all." He had believed the public would go along with more taxes. To many, the Governor seemed back where he started years ago: an intelligent, principled man without imagination or passionate allies...