Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cent budget cut for Cambridge. Or, in city manager Jim Sullivan's words, 100 policemen, 100 firemen, 250 or more teachers. The city's neighborhood health clinics. A score of administrators. All branch libraries. And then the next year, another 25 per cent. Except that you can only get rid of branch libraries once, so maybe 150 cops this time. Cambridge's police force, by the way, numbers about 300. By the time the measure is fully phased in, the city will be able to pay the interest on its debt, the cost of pensions, and nothing else...
...They were quick to the ball and they got rid of it fast, "Harvard forward Kate Martin said. "They're a fast, hard-driving team...
...suppose we should all slow down. Once again, I defer to Sullivan--if the man says he's negotiating, you have to believe him. A whole crowd of people out there is saying Lynn shouldn't be traded, but that if he has to go, let's get rid of him now. Sorry, but baseball doesn't work that way, especially these days when contractual obligations hold up so many trades...
Deaver is also appreciated by Reagan because of his well-demonstrated loyalty. When the crafty John Sears, for example, maneuvered Reagan last November into making a choice between getting rid of either Deaver or himself on the campaign staff, Deaver spared the candidate that painful choice by resigning. Later, when Sears in turn was fired, Deaver returned without reproaching Reagan for letting...
...Every time someone makes a public confession, his audience grows conscious of their own secret sins. The mere presence of the confessor is mortifying, implicitly incriminating. The audience cannot take it. The more direct his approach, the more they want to get rid of him. Carnage ensues...