But quite a lot of Thais blamed the government for turning an obscure bit of nonsense into a global free-speech issue.
In 1981, major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
In fact, the Group of Seven finance ministers wrapped up their latest meeting yesterday, and the Japanese walked away Scot-free on the currency issue.
The government dammed some of the fiscal drains, cracking down on free-lending state banks and the issue of state and municipal bonds, for example.
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Cut public transport fares and issue tax-free vouchers to commuters.
Germany says it will not allow Bulgaria or Romania to join the EU's passport-free Schengen zone if the issue is put to a vote in the EU on Thursday.
Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, modernize the Federal Housing Administration, and allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to help homeowners refinance their mortgages.
After a further 30 to 40 years, or somewhere thereabouts, cash will be eliminated from our economy after the nation has had a plethora of free and wide-ranging debates about this issue.
The Fall raises the puzzle of free will and determinism, a much-disputed issue among today's evolutionary biologists.
Germany said on Sunday it would veto any attempt to allow Bulgaria and its neighbour Romania to enter the passport-free Schengen zone when EU ministers discuss the issue later this week.
The first of those, he urged, is free and open trade with the continent -- an issue that was knocked around the House and Senate last year with the consideration of a bill that would extend free-trade provisions, under certain circumstances, to nations in the continent's sub-Saharan region.
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While McCain supports the North American Free Trade Agreement, it has remained a hot-button issue for Democratic voters.
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Workers are being sent home, workplace snacks and meals cut and even the traditional perk of beer, rum and (government-issue) cake for weddings and a free hotel room for the honeymoon was recently eliminated.
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But even if you don't believe there is an ethical issue here - and there are plenty of free-marketeers who argue morals have no place in markets - there is another consideration.
Finally, the issue has some precedent--the pending free trade agreement between the U.S. and South Korea (the world's most wired country) includes a provision to encourage the free flow of information, though no censorship issues exist between the two countries.
He did not take issue with sales per se, nor interest-free loans per se, but felt that Islamic finance did not permit them to be combined and qualified in a manner that clearly thwarted Islamic finance's central requirement of profit sharing.
Shippers have urged the government to issue certificates that would assure foreign ports that goods are radiation-free.
Oh Se-hoon had called a referendum on the seemingly trivial issue of whether free school lunches should be provided to all children, or only to poor ones.
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Inventory will be an issue as consumers snatch up discounts and buy-one get-one free offers.
The issue of "free" banking was addressed in the Independent Commission on Banking - the Vickers report.
In the coming months the U.S. Supreme Court will issue two critical rulings on property rights, which are the bedrock of a vibrant, free-enterprise economy.
While Shepard and a team of bakers were building the cake, leaders in the gluten-free community used the opportunity to meet with their Senators and Representatives on the hill to discuss the issue.
Democrats -- noting that a patients' bill of rights has been a hot issue in Congress for five years and that Republicans will be free to offer amendments during the debate -- contend that Republicans are trying to delay debate not because they need more time but because an alternative GOP measure, backed by the White House, does not have enough votes to pass.
Regarding this issue of State-sanctioned legitimacy, bitcoin as a cryptographic unit seeks and gains legitimacy through the free and open marketplace.
In the most recent issue of Game Informer, Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida said the company was working on a free-to-play type game.
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