Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk, 58% of the respondents said that there was little difference between the corruption of the Nixon Administration and that of other Administrations in the last 25 years. People who were queried last week voiced similar viewpoints. Said Mrs. James Aycock, a Gastonia, N.C., housewife: "If we got rid of all the shady people in Washington, who'd be left to run the Government...
...threatened to reveal those embarrassing taps. No further move against Hoover was made by either Nixon, Mitchell or Kleindienst. Explained a Justice Department official: "Hoover used those wiretap authorizations to blackmail the Nixon Administration. As long as he had the papers [documenting the taps], they couldn't get rid...
...many others, running the Sheraton hotels, baking Wonder Bread and operating the U.S.-Soviet hot line. Even unfavorable Government action has turned to ITT's benefit. In the first quarter, profits from sale of stock in Canteen Corp. and Avis rent-a-car, which ITT must gradually get rid of to satisfy an antitrust decree, boosted total net a towering 45% over the 1972 period, to $142.6 million...
...odds against Chavez are long. If many more growers sign with the Teamsters, his union could be wiped out; and most growers are eager to get rid of the U.F.W. at nearly any price. Many of those in the Coachella Valley signed Teamster contracts after only a single day of formal bargaining, during which, Chavez charges, no genuine farm workers sat at the negotiating table. The Teamsters accepted a contract calling for a wage of $2.30 an hour this year, a bit less than the $2.40 that Chavez got for his followers, and also allowed growers to bring back...
...bushy-haired Leon Botstein became president of New Hampshire's Franconia College in 1970. He immediately imposed one unusual new rule: no dogs on campus. "Fifty unkempt dogs running around was just too much," said Botstein, "so I got rid of them...