Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murdoch, under a June 30 deadline for resolving a dual ownership in Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts, has declared he will keep the Boston Herald and sell WXFT television. In New York, Murdoch has until March 6 to rid himself either of the Post or WYNW television...
...senior manager was leading a group of newly hired salesmen on a shop-floor tour when someone took umbrage at the sight of laborers wearing Santa Claus caps. Though the festive headgear had become something of an annual tradition at the plant, management ordered three offending workers to get rid of their caps. When they refused, they were promptly suspended for three days without...
...more determined than ever to get the American missiles out and to keep them out. The general staff concluded that Brezhnev really blew it by provoking the U.S. into installing the Pershing IIs in the first place and then not having the wit to make a deal to get rid of them...
...Foam has been singled out as the culprit, butit isn't. The average life span of a landfill is10 years. If we got rid of all foam products, wewould only extend the life of a landfill by onemonth. The CFC resulting from foam products isonly one-one thousandth of 1 percent of thehazards to the ozone layer...
...class at a local college, Donner meets Owen Lift (DeVito), a rumpled, childish lunatic tormented by his mother. In a conversation about how to write an exciting murder mystery, Owen misinterprets Larry's advice and decides that Larry wants to swap murder targets with him. He plots to get rid of Margaret, convinced that Donner will bump off his Momma in return...