Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribespeople in their fast-vanishing traditional costumes, and-most of all-made the great cats of Africa her friends. No lion on earth ever became more famous than Elsa, the cub that Adamson reared from infancy and then painstakingly trained to return to the wild. Through her book Born Free, its sequels and the film, Adamson made her lioness as popular and familiar as Lassie. Feeding the tiny cub with a baby bottle, pushing her on a homemade swing, nuzzling her with fearless affection, Adamson seemed more mother than keeper...
Elsa and the three cubs she mothered were only the Adamsons' first experiments in returning animals to the wild. George continued to work mostly with lions, including some who had performed in Born Free. But Joy turned in the 1960s to cheetahs, successfully de-taming an engaging creature named Pippa and launching another three books. In recent years, while plowing book and movie profits into an international conservation project called the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, she also turned her attention to rehabilitating leopards for the wild, a project that she was on the way to completing as she approached...
...those whom Chileans call the "Chicago Boys," a handful of officials and academics led by Planning Minister Miguel Kast, 30, Finance Minister Sergio de Castro, 49, and Central Bank President Alvaro Bardon, 39. All have graduate degrees in economics from the University of Chicago, the spiritual home of Free Marketeer Milton Friedman. Like most Chilean economists, the Boys were fervent opponents of Allende, and the military junta picked many of them for top jobs. They were given broad authority to cope with emergency in 1975, when the country lay in ruins, hammered by three blows in succession. First there...
...many economists who deplore its authoritarian government, Chile remains a model of what can be achieved in restructuring an aging, prostrate economy into a streamlined machine. The ironic reason for the success is that the dictator is allowing the economists to free business from state control...
...Booth's survival, three years after the murder. The Pink soon finds that the coffin in which J.W. Booth has been interred is empty. He also finds that Washington City, as it was then called, is a nest of intrigue and calumny. Even the greatest names are not free of suspicion. Cosgrove, posing as a salesman of a potent potion called Hostetter Bitters, works out of a safe house on K Street...