But if mothers are to be free to terminate a pregnancy when they do not want the baby, why should they not do so if they do not want a baby of a particular sex?
As the famous theory of Diamond and Dybvig explained, institutions that have long-maturity assets with uncertain returns and short-maturity liabilities that are intended to be risk-free are innately subject to devastating runs.
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"Twenty-eight percent of low-income subsidy recipients are currently in plans that are free to them, but will not be free to them if they stay in that plan in 2008, " says Kevin Prindiville of the National Senior Citizen's Law Center.
Its big neighbour, Serbia, refuses to accept the loss of its former province, even though almost all of Kosovo's 2m people are ethnic Albanians who are thrilled to be free.
In an e-mail exchange, I noted that higher-level Scientologists are supposed to be free of neuroses and allergies, and resistant to the common cold.
In any case, consumers generally prefer to be told what their limits are, and then to be allowed free rein within them.
In the next few weeks Bosnians and Albanians are expected to be granted visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen area.
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Wokingham Borough Council has submitted planning applications for three schools, and two are open to offers to be run as free schools or academies.
The question is whether or not those elections are going to be free and fair.
The kicker is that earnings and withdrawals are supposed to be free of income tax.
If all citizens are to be free in any effective sense, they require help from countervailing forces.
So long as people are left free to be creative, the quality of life for everyone will perpetually improve.
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If those elections are perceived to be free and fair, that will be another milestone in the reform process.
Jason Kitcat, the council leader, describes it simply as a place where people are free to be who they want.
The service can be listened to free if people are willing to listen to adverts interlaced with their stream of songs.
Certainly not Jordan, which quarantines exports from the West Bank until they are proven to be free of Israeli content, further burdening Palestinian businessmen.
In the three days of arguments, six lawyers will make their case in what are expected to be free-wheeling question-and-answer sessions characteristic of oral arguments.
Their counterparts in areas with fewer international tourists or which rely on local visitors are more likely to be free because they need those visitors to return.
Michel Gondry seems to have created a playground in which his actors are free to be ardent, droll or cheerfully insane while Ellen Kuras's see-all camera darts and glides among them.
Now market forces are free to be at play.
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With odds like that, the men are free to be concerned with what Kruger calls their primary concern: strictly sexual relationships. they know that, in the end, there will be women around when and if he decides to hang his hat.
What is more, there is every reason to believe that the independence and objectivity with which Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are properly credited will continue to be needed even if and when transitions to genuine democratic and free market systems are accomplished.
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There are so many men, 'real men' who are wonderful husbands, wonderful fathers, who are secure enough to allow their partners to be free to grow and develop, who take pride in there wives accomplishments, who are big enough as people to allow their wives and children to succeed and blossom.
Some 240, 000 tickets for the ceremony are to be handed out to the public for free by members of Congress.
All injured Iraq troops are put in isolation when they first arrive at stateside military hospitals, until they are shown to be infection-free.
And the rating agencies, which are meant to be supervised by the SEC, were free to get paid for putting their highest imprimatur on deals that were simply not solid.
And although Colombians should be, and are, free to join unions, Mr Uribe says, there are historical reasons for distrust.
Whatever money is left over after the bills are paid is free to be spent on entertainment, new clothes, restaurant meals or other additional expenses.
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