Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social and historical analysis which a university should be all about. Such a comparison raises the issue of ultra-colonialism in Angola to the status of a natural phenomenon, obscures the reasons for bloodshed in places like Burundi and Uganda and contrasted with Portuguese Africa, and conveniently gets rid of white racism, responsibility, and guilt Further, the comparison is even more invidious given Mr. Farber's own failure to concretely analyze the nature of the colonial situation in Angola. At its worst, it becomes the sort of rationalization used to justify the University's present non-negotiable stance...
...straight down the line on the war, on busing, on law and order, and on the "Big A's": amnesty and abortion. He describes his opponents views on economics. "It's simple. The way to stimulate the economy and employment is to stimulate the private sector. If we get rid of the tax burden on individual citizens and businesses, they'll have more money to spend. This will increase the demand for production and thus create jobs. It's freshman economics right out of Samuelson and now even Samuelson won't admit that that's the answer...
...other nations dependent upon Middle East oil, offered no support for any treaty that would include sanctions. As for the Middle East combatants, Eban claimed that terrorism was simply "a recognized arm of Arab governments in a policy of war against Israel." Arabs consider that the only way to rid the world of terrorism is to redress the grievances of the Palestinians...
...everything else that he hated and feared, to the Jews. The Jew became a symbol of sex, disease, his perversion-and even the tormenting guilt that perversion caused him. Conscience, he ranted, was "dirty and degrading," "a Jewish invention," and "a blemish like circumcision." For Hitler, Langer wrote, getting rid of Jews means getting rid of his own unconscious inner difficulties...
...dead of several nights, someone dumped some 8,000 worn-out automobile tires on his one-acre building lot in Herndon, Va., near the Fairfax-Loudoun county line. The authorities threatened Pullman with a jail sentence or a $300 fine for operating an illegal dump unless he quickly got rid of them...