Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams says he wants to be Governor because his son Clayton Wade had a marijuana problem when he was 15. After the boy was expelled from high school in 1986, Williams and his wife Modesta saw him through a 14-month rehabilitation program. "Help me rid us of this plague," he implores audiences. "Help me get the drug dealers out of the school yards." He wants to create a work camp in the West Texas desert where youthful drug offenders would get a chance to reform without obtaining a police record. He suggests doubling the number of state narcotics agents...
...Raquel A. Romano '92 said that the best way to change the club's status is by pressuring the men who might participate in club events. "I think the way to get rid of that kind of discrimination is not through legislation, but when women refuse to go to these final clubs when invited by the men," she said...
...Wall Street banker told me that with $50 million he could get rid of homelessness in New York," he said. "But it isn't a pool of people. It's a surging stream coming in from all over the country...
...keep down the social cost by getting rid of those that are going to run up the cost," she said...
Should a university have the right to get rid of a "grossly incompetent" teacher? Should a professor whose classroom performance does students a "disservice" be sent packing? Outside the ivory tower, few people would say no. But when the University of California, Berkeley, last year became the first school to draft rules for firing tenured teachers, some charged that this amounted to an assault on their intellectual freedom. "You'll never go broke overestimating how sensitive the tenure issue is to faculty," says Richard Chait, director of the National Center for Post-Secondary Governance and Finance at the University...