Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous breakdown-his third. Among his last public words was an almost poignant lament: "If the Pope would only tell me, 'Boy, you have made a big mess out of this,' I can tell you, I would thank our dear Lord on my bare knees to be rid of this job." Of all possible solutions, that seems the least likely...
...millions of dollars' worth of different currencies and move in and out of them on a day-to-day basis. So does the Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever. When a currency seems weak, Unilever's finance managers may send orders to many banks telling them to get rid of it and buy a strong currency. Ernest Woodroofe, Unilever's chairman, concluded recently that the company occasionally "accelerates" international monetary crises by shifting its weight around...
...dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins. "Don't know why the Swedes don't get rid of them," Epstein said. "They are so easy to detect-fluorescent...
...Inner Life. Trintignant was a shy, 20-year-old from Nimes, in the south of France, when he enrolled in the National Film School in Paris. He wanted to be a director, but he took an acting course to gain confidence-and get rid of a telltale provincial accent. The course led to a role as Brigitte Bardot's unhappy husband in her first major movie, And God Created Woman. BB walked away with the picture, but Trintignant walked away with BB. Their widely publicized affair simmered for three years, until Trintignant got a draft notice. He swallowed large...
...misallocate resources through controls under a Republican Administration than under a Democratic one. I would apply this point not only to the wage-price controls, but also to the international scene. If our balance of payments continues to improve, as I believe it will, a Republican Administration will get rid of the controls on loans and investments to foreign countries that got started under President Kennedy...