Containing work by a myriad of authors, which included J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman, himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, this was one of the first American anthologies devoted to the conception of black humor as a literary genre ; the publication also sparked nation wide interest in black humor.

Daniel M. Friedman argued the cause for the United States.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

Prof. Friedman argued that trade deficits are not necessarily as important as high exports raise the value of the currency, reducing aforementioned exports, and vice versa for imports, thus naturally removing trade deficits not due to investment.

In 1963 Friedman and Schwartz proposed a positive feedback loop as a mechanism for catastrophic failures in economics: “ It happens that a liquidity crisis in a unit fractional reserve banking system is precisely the kind of event that trigger-and often has triggered-a chain reaction.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman argued for the modern concept of vouchers in the 1950s, stating that competition would improve schools and cost efficiency.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, founded by Milton and Rose Friedman in 1996, is a non-profit organization that promotes universal school vouchers and other forms of school choice.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

After the final episode, Friedman sat down for an interview with Lawrence Spivak.

According to Friedman, " these two rejections were devastating to the man who had made a career of demonstrating American ideals in film ", along with his directing award-winning documentary films for the Army.

Milton Friedman declared himself " an enormous admirer of Hayek, but not for his economics.

" Friedman did not believe that the trader should be required to make his trade known to the public, because the buying or selling pressure itself is information for the market.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Friedman released Kinky Friedman in 1974 for ABC Records, then toured with Bob Dylan in 1975-6.

The National Organization for Women awarded Friedman the " Male Chauvinist Pig Award " later that year, an award Friedman took with pride.

Milton Friedman, Nobel economist and advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, sought to show that unionisation produces higher wages ( for the union members ) at the expense of fewer jobs, and that, if some industries are unionized while others are not, wages will tend to decline in non-unionized industries.

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

After Friedman's death in 2006, Keynesian Nobel laureate Paul Krugman praised Friedman as a " great economist and a great man ," but criticized him by writing that " he slipped all too easily into claiming both that markets always work and that only markets work.

" Similarly, journalist Matt Taibbi has said of Friedman's writing that, " Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn't make them up even if you were trying – and when you tried to actually picture the ' illustrative ' figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton / Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.

Friedman supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing that the establishment of a democratic state in the Middle East would force other countries in the region to liberalize and modernize.

In a live television interview aired June 11, 2006, on CNN, Howard Kurtz asked Friedman himself about the concept: " Now, I want to understand how a columnist's mind works when you take positions, because you were chided recently for writing several times in different occasions ' the next six months are crucial in Iraq.

In a Fresh Dialogues interview, Friedman described his motivations for writing the book: “ My concern is about America .... Demand for clean energy, clean fuel and energy efficiency is clearly going to explode ; it ’ s going to be the next great global industry.

Friedman responded to criticism by writing: " In retrospect I probably should have used a more precise term like ‘ engineered ’ by the Israel lobby -- a term that does not suggest grand conspiracy theories that I don ’ t subscribe to .”

Characteristically, Bradford juxtaposed scholarly, intellectual writing from philosophers such as Loren Lomasky and Jan Narveson and economists such as Mark Skousen, Doug Casey, Leland Yeager, and David Friedman, with work by virtually unknown, young, and unprofessional writers.

" He criticized the Bush Iraq policy, and broader White House and congressional foreign and domestic policy making, in his keynote address for the Cato Institute's 2006 Milton Friedman Prize dinner.

** Ze ' ev Friedman, Israeli weightlifter ( b. 1944 )

* 1983: Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins, New York Times and Washington Post respectively, " for their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.

Despite his status as a senior journalist whose views are read by the Israeli establishment, in recent months, Friedman came under growing criticism.

In general, Friedman favors a heavy U. S. intervention in the Mideast peace process, geared towards forcing the Israelis to withdraw from territories viewed by Israelis as necessary for the Israeli state's security.

Recalling the moment, an Israeli quoted in the book From Beirut to Jerusalem told Thomas Friedman that on one level it was Brody the star basketball player and his teammates beating the Russians, but on another level it was " my grandfather beating them.

On-campus speakers have included the late nobel laureate in economics, Milton Friedman, the late Israeli Foreign Minister, Abba Eban, Jimmy Carter, Michael Collins, Anderson Cooper, Jared Diamond, Gerald Ford, Stephen Jay Gould, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, Stephen King, Henry Kissinger, Richard Leakey, Dennis Lehane, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Proxmire, Paul Rusesabagina, Helmut Schmidt, Peter Singer, James Van Allen, Elie Wiesel, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Jackson liked to book his own guests, and he became well known for talking to interesting news makers from all around the world, ranging from Richard Nixon's former counsel Charles Colson to economist Milton Friedman to Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan.

* Tal Friedman ( born 1963 ), Israeli actor and comedian

* Died: Luttif Afif and four other Palestinian terrorists ; David Mark Berger, 28, Israeli weightlifter ; Ze ' ev Friedman, 28, Israeli weightlifter ; Yossef Gutfreund, 30, Israeli wrestling referee ; Eliezer Halfin, 24, Israeli wrestler ; Amitzur Shapira, 30, Israeli athletics coach ; Kehat Shorr, 53, Israeli shooting coach ; Mark Slavin, 28, Israeli wrestler ; Andre Spitzer, 37, Israeli fencing coach ; Yakov Springer, Israeli weightlifting judge ( b. c. 1921 )

The Foward published responses to the interview from eight " prominent observers of the Middle East peace process ", Laura Kam of The Israel Project, Israeli security analyst Yossi Alpher, Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now, Princeton University Professor Daoud Kuttab, Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, Arab-American activist Hussein Ibish, David Keyes of Advancing Human Rights and political scientist Nathan Brown.

Recalling the moment, an Israeli quoted in the book From Beirut to Jerusalem told Thomas Friedman that on one level it was Brody the star basketball player and his teammates beating the Russians, but on another level it was " my grandfather beating them.

A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.

The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of activists famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco mayors Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom, anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, economist Milton Friedman, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, conservative journalist William F. Buckley, former WTO head Renato Ruggiero, and Ann Coulter, among others.

After the influence of Friedman and the Chicago boys ( University of Chicago-educated Chilean economists ) on the Miracle of Chile under the Augusto Pinochet regime in the 1970s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the UK ( Thatcherism ) and President Ronald Reagan in the U. S. ( Reaganomics ) adapted similar models in the early 1980s.