Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative House minority whip campaigns for re-election. Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics. Case in point: House minority leader Robert Michel. Says a Michel aide: "Maybe the Democrats can't get Clinton elected, but at least they should be able to get rid of Newt. It would make our lives up here so much easier...
...will always cost you money to get rid of garbage," asserts Marcia Bystryn, a recycling official in New York City. The trick is to encourage behavior that minimizes the costs, allocates them as equitably as possible and creates productive economic activity wherever possible. In large measure, the present disequilibrium in recycling is the result of policies that work at cross-purposes with those goals and with one another. Environmentalists argue -- correctly -- that recycled materials suffer in the marketplace against virgin materials because of government subsidies. Newsprint producers, for instance, are indirectly subsidized through public-area logging and logging access roads...
...around the $ fire and think it was uproarious when a baby toddled toward the flames. Children would excavate food from the mouths of weakened grandparents and run away laughing. A wife would die by the roadside, and her husband would walk on without looking back, relieved to be rid of the burden...
...didn't matter that schoolchildren once hid under their desks in drills to prepare for nuclear war," Bush said. "I saw the chance to rid our children's dreams of the nuclear nightmare, and I did," Bush said...
George Bush and Saddam Hussein have this much in common: each wants to keep his job, and each would like to be rid of the other. They've been doing their best on both fronts. After days of hard negotiation at the United Nations, the three-week showdown over whether a U.N. inspection team would gain access to the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry ended. Baghdad agreed to admit a team of inspectors -- with one important catch: the building would still be barred to inspectors from the U.S. or any other nation that fought Iraq in the Gulf...