Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moderately happy married couple haunted by the blithe spirit of the husband's first wife. Elvira, who is really no more appealing than his second, living wife, but whose unusual status allows her a snideness the other characters cannot match. Throw in an eccentric medium who tries to rid the couple of the unwelcome guest, and the comic possibilities are lush. Logic can have no place in such a world. "After all." Charles tells Elvira. "I've been married to Ruth for five years, and you've been dead for seven." Enough said...
Vellucci called the Linnaean St. case "a monkey on our back" and said that despite his request for a moratorium on condo discussions, "We're trying to get rid...
...Recovery Act of 1976, the ban was put in place last November in response to widespread concerns that leaking chemical drums were contaminating thousands of disposal sites. Critics of the ban, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had claimed that sorting out liquid from solid toxic wastes and then getting rid of them was prohibitively expensive. Incineration, for example, costs more than $100 per bbl., vs. $25 simply to bury the stuff. EPA officials admitted last week that even before the ban went into effect, they had decided to scuttle it as "unworkable." Edgy environmentalists think that may still happen, despite...
...address, King said that the death penalty would be applied evenly, regardless of "color or social status." But Cambridge Rep. Saundra Graham told the committee that "if we say we want the death penalty, we say we would like to get rid of minorities in this country. We should not be in the business of Murder Incorporated," she concluded...
...nine successive speakers at last night's rally which included representatives of the former Communist Hanoi Government and the Abdala Cuban Movement an anti Castro organization A Soviet emigre warned of the miliaturization of Soviet society, following other speakers' warnings that " it's not too late to get rid of the Soviet regime...