Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three mayors who preceded him. He took the patronage out of the procedure for choosing young people for summer jobs, and raised the percentage of blacks employed for summers from about 60% to over 90% simply by making the system equitable. He has treated poverty programs evenhandedly, getting rid of ones that benefit whites as well as blacks. As for playing favorites, he took heat for removing a full-time police car protecting the leader of the Lubavitcher Hasidic sect in Brooklyn, because Koch was convinced such protection was not necessary. Still, he is regarded by many as a divisive...
...Getting rid of both South Africans and Cubans...
...fact that during centuries of oppression-foreign and home-grown-secret societies were a means of popular resistance to authority. The Mafia, for instance, came into being under feudal rule in Sicily. In the 19th century an underground society called the Carboneria fought to get rid of Austrian rule. Similarly today, in an Italy that has been threatened by Communism, neo-Fascism and terrorism, many an idealistic Italian has been tempted to join a secret group with the avowed aim of improving society. The apparent aberration of P2 aside, there are believed to be about 30,000 Masons in Italy...
...Bulgaria and demanded the release of 47 of their comrades in Turkish prisons, the hostages boldly decided to strike back. By the second day, according to the plane's pilot Barlas Akidil, "we had received several signs from the passengers that they were very eager to get rid of the terrorists...
...editors who thought tighter enforcement of editing standards was "urgently needed" was Michael J. O'Neill of the New York Daily News. O'Neill then had to get rid of one of his flashiest young columnists, Michael Daly. Like Janet Cooke of the Post, with her nonexistent eight-year-old dope addict, Daly lengthily quoted by name an English soldier in Belfast who turned out not to exist. The point should be well made by now: it may sometimes be necessary to use a fictitious name to protect an endangered source, but the source should be real...