Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different line. Says Trottier: "If you keep doing the same things, other teams learn how to control you. With different guys, you try different things and when you go back to your regular line, damned if they don't work. A little change now and then gets rid of the moss...
...When Harvard bleeds its unions at the bargaining table, when it spreads out into the city and evicts tenants along the way, when it tells its students they will have only the tiniest say in forming a new curriculum, and no say at all in deciding whether to get rid of certain lucrative stocks or a well-endowed name on its new library, there is always a good reason for doing so. There are budgets and timetables and procedures to be followed, all rational and reasonable and efficient, and the men and women who run the University have no real...
...strategy. "You can't change the ratios on committees," noted Cranston. "But you can fool around with them." So the Democrats did some fooling. They reduced the size of the committee by one seat. This enabled them to eliminate a Republican without changing the ratio. Thus they got rid of one of the Horrendous Hs: Hatch...
...Gulag Archipelago, Cambodia and Jonestown, we are being told once again that evil does not exist [Dec. 18]. Good grief! What would have to happen for Milhaven and Baum to accept the existence of evil? Having eliminated evil from the world, perhaps they would be so kind as to rid us of poverty, disease, pain and war as well. Robert H. Stein White Bear Lake, Minn...
...strategic a territory. The Persian Gulf provides fully 71% of the oil presently consumed by Western Europe; yet geographically, and perhaps also socially and politically, it is a perfect target of opportunity for Soviet expansionism. There is no convincing evidence that the Russians have been subversively operating to get rid of the Shah in Iran or that they are presently working to overthrow other regimes along the crescent. But within a decade, according to intelligence reports, the Soviet Union will be running short of the oil it needs to fuel an expanding economy. Thus the region could easily become...