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Perhaps the ultimate irony is that occasional fake paper submitted to a free-enterprising faculty member who goes on to publish it as his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it was the beginning of an amazing recovery by the free-enterprising successors to the cartel, which has resulted in bigger sales than their prewar parent ever had.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among other candidates: Morarji Desai, shrewd, free-enterprising former Finance Minister.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because of subsidies, free-enterprising American-flag lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas