Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annoyingly talkative older man, identified health care as his number one concern. "Fifteen minutes in a doctor's office shouldn't cost 95 dollars," he told me. "We need to get rid of the career politicians in Washington and put somebody in there who can really make a change." Who was Jim's candidate of choice? Ironically, it was the candidate with the least commitment to reforming the health care system: Republican Pat Buchanan. Buchanan's virtue as a candidate, according to Jim, was that he wasn't a "career politician" who played to the special interests...
...many people want to edit texts and ultimately get rid of them," said Charren, referring to Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and groups such as the Moral Majority...
...observes Fred Liscum, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Levees built to protect towns can also restrict river flow, which in turn can force the waterway to crest and wash out the barriers on either bank. Says Robert Cox, Louisiana floodplain administrator: "You don't get rid of the water; you just pass it on downstream to the next...
...Kennedy Administration never came to grips with the true politics of the war and of Vietnam; instead, they stood by the hopelessly corrupt and unpopular regime of Ngo Dinh Diem and complained about getting bad press. (Interestingly, the Administration toyed at one point with the idea of getting rid of Diem's vicious and powerful brother, one of the more sordid features of a generally sor-did South Vietnamese government, by sending him off to teach at Harvard...
...able to get rid of my summer work [requirement] with Harvard," said Coote. "He increased my loan...