Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hungary the country's ruling party shed its Communist label. And in Caracas ranking socialist leaders of the First and Third Worlds -- President Francois Mitterrand of France, 72, on a tour of Latin America, and President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela, 66 -- agreed on the virtues of the free market...
...crash may have helped cushion last week's fall. In Chicago the Mercantile Exchange twice halted trading in S&P 500 futures contracts, which represent the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. The automatic cutoffs, or "circuit breakers," slowed the contracts' drop. In 1987 parallel free falls in New York and Chicago, which are linked by computerized trading programs, had aggravated the collapse. But last week some Chicago traders claimed that the stoppages in futures trading restricted the ability of some investors to hedge their losses, forcing them to dump stocks and exacerbating the selling frenzy in Manhattan...
Lyphomed defends its pentamidine price by citing high research-and- developmen t costs. The firm announced last June that it would make the drug available free of charge to patients who have no insurance, but the + company is still working out details of the program. Last month the People with AIDS Health Group, based in New York City, began importing small quantities of pentamidine from Britain. Reason: a month's supply of the European version, which is made by the French firm Rhone-Poulenc, costs just...
Government by Symbolism. Reagan was a master at this, and Bush has proved a very quick study. When the Supreme Court last July ruled that the burning of the U.S. flag qualified as protected free speech under the First Amendment, Bush and his advisers organized a media event before the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington so the President could call for a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration. Congress shied away from an amendment, but last week it passed a simple criminal law that would impose a jail term of up to one year on anyone who burned the flag...
...have reason to worry about a different kind of temptation. It is called The Reader's Catalog, a large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience of mail...