Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain number of criminals among the latest refugees. Cuban Americans who had sailed to Mariel on Castro's pledge that they could pick up relatives there sometimes returned tearfully in boats carrying some young toughs, old winos and even prostitutes (Castro had long insisted that his nation had rid itself of such vice). Armed Castro soldiers marched prisoners directly from jails to the boats, forcing them aboard whether they wanted to go or not. The American crews similarly had no choice but to accept them...
...rest of the credit curbs initiated two months ago. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had been opposed to the measures, which included reserve requirements on new credit-card borrowings and on money-market funds. Observers expected that Volcker would use the first available opportunity, like the recession, to get rid of the limitations...
...distinction. We should not expose ourselves to repeated occasions for disagreement, bluster, and bitterness over something that is fundamental to us in exchange for something that contributes almost nothing to our basic endeavor as a university. It's a matter of common sense. So, once again, Harvard should get rid of HIID and get out of world politics...
...Castro suddenly permitted the massive sealift? Among other things, he has managed to rid his country of hundreds of dissidents and slightly relieved the demand for food and other goods in an already strapped economy. For much these same reasons he opened Camarioca, 65 miles east of Havana, as a refugee port in October 1965 and invited Cuban Americans to fetch relatives and friends. By the time he closed the port, about a month later, some 3,000 Cubans had exited by that route. That operation paved the way for the "freedom flights," sponsored by Washington, that eventually brought...
...bill was written under pressure from real estate lobbyists and without consultations of tenant groups, Businger said, adding that it may cause landlords who want to get rid of their tenants to increase rents...