Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SEVERAL YEARS, students at this University fought to force Harvard out of South Africa. They rallied and marched, they researched and they wrote, they argued, and eventually, they lost. A Harvard Corporation more interested in income than justice refused to get rid of Harvard's holdings; it refused to condemn American investment in South Africa; and in the years since, it has refused to vote for almost any of the innocuous shareholder resolutions concerning the apartheid-ruled nation...
...promise from the Corporation that it would no longer keep Harvard's money in banks that loaned funds directly to the South African government. Even for the financiers that run this University, the thought of directly supporting a blatantly racist government was indefensible. And so they did get rid of some notes sitting in the Manufacturers Hanover Trust treasury, and of a sizeable chunk of money in Citibank. They did it secretly; they did it slowly; but they did it, and it earned enough publicity to have at least a little impact on the public perception of South Africa...
...that his list of those responsible for Manotoc's disappearance began with the First Lady, who had conceded that she was bitterly opposed to the marriage. Some Western diplomats in Manila suspect that aides close to Mrs. Marcos may have taken too literally her expressed desire to be rid of the problem posed by Manotoc...
Industry analysts believe that RCA's retreat from the world of conglomerates will result in a healthier company. Said R. Joseph Fuchs of Wall Street's Kidder, Peabody: "It makes sense to get rid of the diversified businesses and hop back to being a communications company." The sale of C.I.T. or Hertz would also give RCA some badly needed cash to spend on expensive new ventures into satellite communications, cable programming and broadcasting. - By Christopher Byron Reported by Peter Stoler/New York
...balloons. Hank Ross one of Midway's founders, got the idea of letting the clown retrieve missed balls by kicking them back into the air. It was decided that on the easy first "rack," or skill level (some games have as many as 20 racks), the clown would get rid of balloons by popping them with a spike on his hat. But on the second level, the balloons would pile up on his head, so that successive balloons would have a shorter distance to fall from the top of the screen, and the clown would have to pedal faster...