Word: friedmanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOVER'S DIET, devised by Dr. Abraham Friedman, at least sounds like fun. He urges the overweight to "reach for a mate instead of a plate," and exercise off their excess weight through intercourse. But unless they follow Friedman's low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet as well, they are unlikely to shed many pounds. A single act of intercourse, according to Friedman, burns an average of only 200 calories...
RAGE Directed by GEORGE C. SCOTT Screenplay by PHILIP FRIEDMAN and DAN KLEINMAN
...truth, King Cariadoc is a Columbia University physicist named David Friedman, and the valiant knight who "slew" him is a male nurse from Toledo named Andrew Holly. The clash of their armies near Waterford, Pa., last weekend was brutal but bloodless. It was merely another lovingly re-created medieval spectacle staged by the Society for Creative Anachronism, a six-year-old organization whose 3,000 members are in love with the Middle Ages. They like nothing better than dressing in replicas of medieval clothing, adopting such names as Sir Thorvald the Grim and playing Knight...
Kosters sees controls as a kind of collapsible boat, to be used in an emergency, then folded up and put away completely. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, the bastion of Milton Friedman's extreme free-market economics. And that, Kosters observes dryly, "leaves no one unmarked." He worked for five years for the Rand Corp., later for the Council of Economic Advisers, and then the Labor Department until Nixon started the COLC...
...nine months since its inception, the Libertarian Party nationally has grown to a paid membership of 1500. Approximately one third characterize themselves as "free market anarchists," despite the Party's limited-state platform, while the rest describe themselves as followers of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman or Robert Heinlein...