Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats want to send. They want to espouse less Government, not more. Protests Neoliberal Wirth: "The fact is, we already have an industrial policy. We already spend $300 billion in subsidies to industry, but it's a crazy quilt of patchwork policies. The Republicans say get rid of it. We say that's absurd. We say don't get rid of it, rationalize...
...ambassador." D. gets her comeuppance in these pages, where her husband describes the mother of three of his children as a manic-depressive alcoholic given to stripping in public and calling herself a whore. As for "good old Boule," the time comes when Simenon must get rid of her too, handing her over to his oldest son's household. He complains: "I can tell that she doesn't fully comprehend the sacrifice I am making...
...been pressuring ARDE and its 4,000 guerrillas to join forces with the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), the 8,000-strong contra group based in Honduras. ARDE's political leaders, notably Alfonso Robelo Callejas, favored the alliance, but Pastora adamantly rejected it unless the F.D.N. got rid of several commanders who were members of Nicaragua's hated National Guard under former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Early last month, the CIA threatened to cut ARDE'S funds if it did not team up with the F.D.N. by May 31. On Tuesday, May 29, Robelo and the other ARDE...
Honecker was apparently trying to get rid of political dissidents, church activists and malcontents, as well as to clear the backlog of applications of people who wanted to be reunited with their families in the West. For those who did not succeed in leaving or who have participated in the country's fledgling peace movement, new restrictions have been imposed. Sixty thousand East Germans, most of them youths, have had their identity cards confiscated and must now apply for permission to travel anywhere outside the cities in which they live...
...apart: they have lost jobs, perhaps, or were embarrassments to their families. They are uneasy, but not really frightened, and certainly not indignant. No one, including the leader Balaban, thinks of protesting against abuse and prejudice. Other groups have defects too, admits one guest who is stalwartly trying to rid himself of tainted habits by the prescribed self-help routines. "But their defects are healthy. People say that the Austrians are heavy drinkers. Of course they are, but that, if it can be called a defect at all, is a healthy defect ... If only the Jews knew how to drink...