Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge City Councilor, indignant over this veiled form of discrimination toward the homeless in his own backyard, lashed out at his neighbors in a recent confrontation. "We're not talking about getting rid of toxic waste dumps here," he said. "We're talking about human beings...
...partnership will bring immediate benefits to both companies. IBM stands to gain experience in telecommunications and get rid of the troubled SBS. For | MCI, a transfer of IBM's long-distance business could bring as much as $100 million a year in revenue. In addition, MCI will immediately gain more than 200,000 customers from SBS, representing about $35 million in monthly revenues and 1% of the long-distance market...
...Westchester, both the Cuban and American flags are raised each morning, but nearly all the students gulp Big Macs and admire Madonna. In Miami proper, Josefina Fraga, assistant principal of Auburndale Elementary School, who immigrated in 1962, reminisces: "As soon as my kids got here they wanted to get rid of their embroidered dresses. They were more American than George Washington...
...that "you're patronizing us, you're wrong. We know we'll lose jobs. We know we pay a price for this. But in the long run, we think it's good for us." In Los Angeles, Mayor Bradley ordered his city's $4 billion pension fund to get rid of $700 million invested with companies that deal with South Africa. He vowed to replace any pension fund commissioner who failed to carry out his directive. At the state level, Republican Governor George Deukmejian, who is also a University of California regent, did not commit himself to support a divestment...
...significant. By casting the Republicans as the party that defied the special interests for the benefit of the ordinary voter, Reagan hopes to re-establish the G.O.P. as the majority party for the first time in more than half a century. Optimistic Republican strategists believe they can finally rid the party of the country-club conservative label that has clung to it since the days of Coolidge and Hoover. "The President has in his hands the weapon with which to forever dismantle the New Deal coalition," exults New Right Strategist Richard Viguerie...