Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter's rating was on a downward slide. Majorities ranging from 71% to 52% agreed with the propositions that Reagan had lived up to his campaign promises in six key areas: working effectively with Congress, providing strong leadership in government, providing moral leadership, keeping U.S. defenses strong, getting rid of waste in government and making Americans feel good again...
Right-wing forces cannot rid themselves of the political pressures from miners because mineral production has such importance in the Bolivian economy. Although miners represent only 3 per cent of Bolivia's workforce, mining provides the Bolivian government with 60 per cent of its official foreign exchange. Most recently, miners have used their clout to fight persistently for democratic elections; many in Viloco and other centers vowed to oppose this latest interruption to the final consequences. The resistance of such communities had been instrumental in staving off a 1979 attempted coup...
...people who cannot pay fuel bills and fuel conservation measures. Contended the moderate Republican: "Perceptions about the Administration's mandate are changing rapidly. The Reagan Administration read it to mean that the country will do anything the President wants it to do. But the mandate was to rid the country of an ineffective President and to bring the economy under control." Reported Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds, a liberal Democrat, after a whirlwind series of meetings in his relatively conservative Cape Cod district: People are saying, 'Hey, wait a minute. This is not what I voted...
...plot concerns the "Johnson County Wars." In the late 19th century, rich cattle barons hire an army of well-trained assassins to rid the Wyoming territory of poor immigrants who steal their cattle in order to survive. Cimino wanted to make a bold statement about the injustice of the American aristocracy, he wanted to show the corruption of the Frontier Spirit. Not a bad idea. And crawling through Heaven's Gate's quagmire of chaotic, irrelevant scenes, unexplained connections between events, unclear alliances between people, and awful dialogue, you can find traces of that original idea...
...their green light, the astronauts were settling in for a long haul. With almost anticlimactic ease, Crippen operated the spacecraft's big cargo bay, opening and closing and then reopening its doors. That was an essential maneuver at the start of the second orbit, allowing the ship to rid itself of internal heat from all its operations, and it was executed flawlessly. Televised pictures from space quickly showed just how well the machinery worked. Even the big engine housings in Columbia's tail were dramatically visible against the blackness of space...