Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Reagan's cuts are bound to affect the coffers of every state, officials are trying to use their ingenuity to soften the blow. Says California Analyst Hamm: "It's not realistic for us to say [to Washington], 'Don't touch us, but get rid of the deficits.' We should be asking ourselves, 'What can we give up that will hurt us the least?' " -By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington and Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles, with other bureaus
...addition to the questionable financial, practical and moral implications of comparable worth, the long-term benefit for workers is negative. If a company is forced to pay secretaries at the rate of computer operators, then the company may well attempt to rid themselves of the secretaries altogether. If a warehouse must pay forklift drivers the equivalent of truck drivers, then it will attempt to do without forklift drivers. In this age of automation, much can change. If a business can no longer determine the value of their employees given its budget, then it will automate at the employees' expense...
...Nobody is going to run me out of this town," Tambs vowed. "I'm staying to continue the fight together with the Colombian government to get rid of the dope business." Nonetheless, State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg announced that the U.S. would temporarily be "reducing our official profile in Colombia." At least a dozen of the embassy's 187 U.S. employees left the country last week with their families. Americans are not the only ones at risk. Says Tambs: "I have information that all the Colombian Cabinet ministers and the President himself have received death threats ever since...
...young Sikh men start to rid themselves of the traditionally visible traits of their culture--uncut hair wrapped in turbans, unshaven beards, etc.--some of the older, more conservative Sikhs have expressed alarm at the threat to Sikh identity. It is this impulse that lends support to Sikh separatists, no matter how extreme. But the moderates must lead the way into coming to terms with a changing society. The Sikh community must define for themselves what constitutes being a Sikh in the here and now and not in some romanticized and dangerous notion of seventeeth-century Sikh soldier-saints...
...start of the Hinckley trial, polls showed that 87 percent of the public believed that too many murderers were using the insanity plea to avoid jail. Reagan adviser Edwin Meese III, quoted as saying that reform of the defense would help "rid the streets of the most dangerous people... out there," failed to understand what a recent Harvard Law Review article made clear...