Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less able to cope, Willy has taken to working in his "garden," a tiny patch of dirt behind his house in choking Brooklyn in the middle of the night. He is trying to plant something, he yells up to his frantic wife and angry, embarrassed sons; he wants to rid himself of the "kind of temporary feeling" he has about his life. Wheeler handles the symbolism of this scene very well, blacking out the otherwise ever-present kitchen set and using subtle filters in the lighting to create a dreamlike effect...
...good humor during an Oval Office conversation with TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett the morning after victory in the Senate. Reagan's mood turned from mellow to flinty on only one subject: criticism of his foreign policy apparatus and recurrent rumors that he wants to get rid of either Secretary of State Alexander Haig, National Security Adviser Richard Allen, or both. Reagan moved forward in his wing chair, literally leaning into the question. Excerpts from the interview...
...Reagan lifted the ban imposed by Jimmy Carter in 1977 on reprocessing the uranium in spent fuel rods into plutonium, which is used in atomic bombs. That ban was supposed to help check the spread of nuclear weapons. Lifting it may in the long run help power companies get rid of some of the nuclear garbage piling up outside their plants, but its immediate impact will be small. Only one reprocessing plant now exists in the U.S., in Barnwell County, S.C., and it is operating as a research rather than as a commercial facility...
...street, some of them as young as eight or nine. That is the time they need help. Sinbad Lock wood, a Bed-Stuy street artist who tries to wean boys like Baby Love away from the streets to painting, says, "It be the parents' fault, they gets rid of the kids by sending them to the candy store where they be buying reefer and beer. These kids ain't no monsters-they be raising themselves, that...
...should make money from DNA." By tightening conflicts-of-interest guidelines, Harvard is "trying regulate something that can't be regulated," he added, concluding his digression with an admonition to University policymakers: "If you try and codify [the behavior of faculty members], all you'll do is possibly get rid of your best...