Word: rid
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Truman was never torn by ambition. He did not particularly want to be Vice President in 1944 when word went out that F.D.R. was interested. Margaret shows how Roosevelt maneuvered him into the job against his will. First, F.D.R. had to get rid of two contenders, Vice President Henry Wallace and James Byrnes...
Some 10,000 Americans suffer irreversible kidney failure each year. The human body cannot survive longer than about three weeks unless it can rid itself of the waste products that are normally extracted by the kidneys and excreted in the urine. This means that the victims face certain death unless they can do one of two things: 1) receive intermittent dialysis treatments, in which the blood is removed from the body and cleansed of most of its impurities, or 2) get a kidney transplant. Both alternatives are expensive. Dialysis can cost $25,000 or more a year; a kidney transplant...
Until now, Amin has been too busy getting rid of the Asians to pay much attention to Uganda's small white population, which consists primarily of some 700 Americans, many of them missionaries, and a British community that has dwindled from 7,000 to 3,500 in the past two months. Recently Amin announced the expulsion of 55 of the country's 1,293 Catholic missionaries, as well as three clerics of other denominations. Amin claimed that they were mercenaries in disguise who had entered Uganda with firearms and military uniforms concealed beneath their priestly robes. Among these...
...Having got rid of Cornfeld,* Vesco and associates zeroed in on the securities held by four IOS-managed mutual funds: Venture Fund, Fund of Funds, International Investment Trust (IIT) and Transglobal Growth Fund. Between April and October of this year, the SEC says, Vesco and friends sold out of the funds' holdings nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worth of stocks, including Chase Manhattan, General Motors, Mobil Oil, A T & T and IBM, and used the cash to further "their personal interests and pursuits...
...noise pollution [Oct. 23]: The next time one of you is a victim of a purse snatcher or mugger while walking through Central Park, watch your decibels while screaming, or you may be fined $500. Shape up. New York, and use that $800,000 to help rid the streets and parks of crime...