Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fringe candidates are lurking in Massachusetts as well. Socialist Party candidate. J. Quinn Brisben wants to "socialize" health care and banking. And get rid of the CIA while...
...finally got rid of it. That's what we die with, kidney failure. So if another big bug hits me again like that, it may be the last...
...have to get rid of $4.5 million in the budget," Rafferty said. "The challenge is to make it as least destructive as possible...
...victory for a latecomer cannot be called flatly impossible. Two changes in delegate-selection rules since 1988 make it at least thinkable. The Democrats have got rid of the "bonus" rules under which, for instance, Michael Dukakis in 1988 won 66% of Florida's delegates with only 41% of the state's primary votes. All primaries this year will be conducted under a system of rough proportional representation. That decreases the chances that any candidate can lock up a majority of delegates early...
...that the capitalist economies of the West grew organically over centuries. It was totally unrealistic for anyone to expect that Eastern Europe could demolish the communist system and build free-market democracies in two -- or even 10 -- years. Yet many people in Eastern Europe thought that by getting rid of the stagnant and oppressive communist system, they could enjoy Western prosperity overnight, and their governments failed to disabuse them of that idea...