Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard football team has sent a message loud and clear to the rest of the Ivy League--it has gotten rid of its past demons and is ready to contend for the Ivy crown. The wealth of talent on this team has finally come together in a masterpiece of experience...
...seat parliament, the Majlis-e-Shura. A victory by Nouri is crucial to his chief ally, the embattled reformist President of Iran, Mohammed Khatami, and his efforts to promote moderation, expand freedom and normalize Iran's relations with the outside world. "The court is trying to get rid of me," Nouri told TIME last week. "But the trial is really a trial of the reform movement...
...millions of people are willing to risk halitosis, or worse long-range health effects, to get rid of their obesity. The U.S. is by far the fattest country in the world, with 54% of the population overweight. If Americans didn't travel overseas, they'd think 200 lbs. was normal. They eat 7% more calories than they did 20 years ago. Even the nation's children, the ones so hyperactive they need Ritalin, are pudgy; 25% of them are overweight. To combat this, Americans, in lieu of exercise, spend $33 billion a year on the diet industry...
...weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive student to the principal, the teacher could just shoot him in the kneecap." "Hey, Lisa! Get rid of the gun, get help and get a life!" CHOICE EPITHETS FOR TIME'S STAFF FROM THE TICKED...
...wish I could rid myself of the premonition that somebody's going to get killed trying to measure Ron Perelman's waist. In August, Perelman, a billionaire who normally avoids speaking to the press, granted an interview to the New York Times. Apparently trying to alter the widespread public impression of him as a pudgy little bald guy surrounded by glowering security guards, Perelman said, "I do take a fat picture, but I've got a 28-in. waist...