Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lottery procedure is covered with much suspicion," Michael Fridkin '81, who presented the motion, said last night, adding that "if we could eliminate the students' suspicion about the process, we could get rid of a lot of their unhappiness with the lottery results...
...start with the facts. Since 1932, when the Salvadorean military quelled protests for a minimum wage by killing 30,000 peasants and workers, the people have lived under authoritarian rule. The present junta, presided over by Jose Napoleon Duarte, took power when a group of young army officers got rid of the right-wing government of General Carlos Romero in 1979. The new junta, however, began to disintegrate just three months later when every civilian cabinet member resigned in opposition to the military's domination of government. Many of those disenchanted civilians joined the forces of the Revolutionary Democratic Front...
...PRESSURE, and in large doses, is sorely needed to rid the school of its white male preponderance and its flouting of the spirit of affirmative action statutes. K-School administrators may not consciously discriminate--it's hard to picture Graham Allison, Hale Champion, and Ira Jackson huddling in some remote office at night conspiring to keep women or Blacks...
...MOVIE The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Alan Arkin must dispose of a marijuana butt. He is instructed to burn the paper and get rid of the unused marijuana by throwing it in the john and flushing it twice. His partner informs him of people she knew who were in prison because they only flushed once. You can tell that this movie was made...
...Conservative government! It's our realistic policy of saying, "You're responsible for what goes on in your factory, and if you get it wrong, you can carry the can. Don't come to government to bail you out." [The unions] are now getting rid of some of their own militants...