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Word: frees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many do. We want to see to it that the needy have an adequate standard of medical care, but who is to say that the long waiting lines observed in the public clinics of many countries do not perform a quite useful function in restricting the beneficiaries of a free service to people who are really poor and really...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Harberger: A Deadly Naivete | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...What is Communism but total government control?" McManus asks honestly ignorant of any answer. Every political issue fits into the government/Communist control spectrum. "Are you aware that one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto is free public education?" he inquires with a smile. "You don't have a right to an education." He smiles some more when he describes how the society is spreading the good word: the speakers bureau is the second largest in the country(only Sports Illustrated's is bigger) and schedule people like ex-Marine hero Lewis Millett to expound the society line on grueling...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: John Birch Society: Cranky Adolescence | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...should definitely boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics [Jan. 28], for this may be not only the U.S.'s but the free world's last chance to stand up to the Soviet Union peacefully and show it that it cannot pursue aggression whenever it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...Dodge Main and Hamtramck. A symposium of academics and government officials gathered there last summer to exchange ideas. Some suggested turning the plant into a bus factory. Others thought solar panels would correct the energy losses. Still others said to forget about the plant and transform Hamtramck into a free trade zone or a tourist attraction, like a Polish-theme park. "What Hamtramck does," said one participant, Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, "will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays somewhat pessimistically: "It's almost as though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: Goodbye, Dodge Main | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...militants had been lifted by a single daring and dramatic deed. The cunning maneuver executed by Canadian diplomats in secreting six Americans in hostile Tehran for almost three months and then spiriting them to safety last week provided a heartening interlude in Washington's still unsuccessful struggle to free 50 hostages from their captors in chaotic Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Canada to the Rescue | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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