Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question was never answered, as the Administration sought to rid itself of an issue that it increasingly came to see as an obstacle in Middle East policy. An intensive review, explained Secretary of State Alexander Haig, had failed to determine whether Israel's bombing raids had been defensive or offensive. Said the former general: "I think, in a subjective way, one can argue to eternity as to whether or not a military action may be defensive or offensive in character." Begin's attitude was hardly helpful. "The planes were ours," he declared the day before the embargo...
Critics charge that this is leading the Philippine economy into a type of state capitalism. But Gerardo Sicat, the former Economic Planning Minister, insists that the money is being doled out to corporations only after they have met stringent conditions, such as getting rid of unprofitable ventures...
...part of its drive to get rid of "burdensome. unnecessary. or counterproductive federal regulations," the White House is reviewing Title IX. along with several other regulations. many of them dealing with civil rights. women's rights, and sexual harassment of women...
Nancy Randolph, special assistant to President Bok. said she does not think the University would loosen its own hiring policies or begin paying men and women differently "just because the government got rid of Title...
Once, in 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, then at the height of his powers, tried to get rid of Moses. It wasn't a clash of principles; Moses and Roosevelt had hated each other since FDR's days as governor of New York. The President simply wanted his own men distributing the construction money into the nation's biggest city. Using Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes as the hit-man. Roosevelt pressured Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to fire Moses from the Triborough Board. Fearing a huge outcry in the city if he fired the man "above politics," La Guardia...