Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he's getting rid of the ball, he may be tossing it to older brother Bob, the starting split end, who has eight receptions so far. Or he might be handing off to tailback Duckworth Grange (3.4 yards per carry) or fullback Richard Jenkins (3.7 yards), neither of whom really stack up to the opening-game status of Crimson rushers Mark Vignali (six yards per carry) and Robert Santiago (seven...
...boatlift: those who came and those who were sent," explains Miami-based Painter Victor Gomez, who says he arranged to be falsely classified as a delinquent to join the exodus. "It was Castro's diabolical strategy to give all Cuban exiles a bad image and get rid of antisocials...
Last week the new management team headed by Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Martin Davis, 56, announced a major streamlining program to rid the company of low-profit operations. Among the cast-off candidates: Arlington Park race track near Chicago and Roosevelt Raceway in New York, manufacturer E.W. Bliss, and Sega's video-game-making unit. The moves would save the company about $470 million in tax write offs, but produce a loss of $215 million this year...
...aides insist that he never had much faith in it. "It was a creation of the White House staff," says Watt's chief spokesman, Douglas Baldwin, who also fixed some of the blame on members of the Office of Management and Budget. "They thought you could get rid of the deficit like Mary Poppins, by just wiggling your nose." But the Secretary went along until recently, when, according to Baldwin, he became convinced that the program had become "a political liability to the President. And once he got to the right people in the White House, there...
...timetable that sometimes forces farmers to sell at deflated prices. "The biggest concern I have is the quality of corn they are shipping in," says Alabama Farmer Bill Sanders. "Some of it is as much as two or three years old. I may have to buy hogs to get rid...