Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth A. Frost '85, a poetry editor for the review, said that Padan Aram was meant to be an alternative to The Advocate. "We want to take good writing and rid it of any type of pretentions that cling to projects such as these," she added...
...cedi, Ghana's grossly overvalued currency, along with other stringent austerity measures. Any such agreement, however, could easily spark another coup by revolutionary elements within the military. The powerful radicals, says a former Ghanaian army officer, would "like to turn Ghana into a Cuba overnight and get rid of the last vestiges of private enterprise." As Rawlings vacillates between unpalatable alternatives, the influx of refugees brings not only the promise of serious food shortages but a dangerous infusion of unfulfilled expectations. Says returning Construction Worker Joseph Azah: "We left Ghana to escape rural poverty. We are not coming back...
...such improvement takes time, effort and of course budget, and officials note that the best results in the past have come from long-term aids like better teacher training. An ever present temptation is to get rid of the problem on the surface by "holding back" students till they have attained competency for the grade level. New York City ran into just this problem in 1980 when it created an ironclad regulation for the city's overcrowded, almost completely ineffectual seventh grades: Students could not go on to eighth until they had achieved certain flat scores on the city "idiot...
...work of cleaning pieces of art. Paintings often become infested with worms, beetles, and other pests. Lab workers recently removed an 11th century Chinese polychrome wood statue from exhibition at the Fogg for the first time since 1928. They had to fumigate the piece in a special lab to rid it of powder-post beetles...
...think he's done some good things, and I think the main problems I have with his policy is the impression, and I think it's symbolized by his attempt to get rid of the Department of Energy. I think it's more the image that he's projecting that I have a problem with...