Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anarchists who advocate violence, Kaczynski has become a hero. He is flattered but notes that "a lot of these people are just irrational." What Kaczynski wants is a true movement, "people who are reasonably rational and self controlled and are seriously dedicated to getting rid of the technological system. And if I could be a catalyst for the formation of such a movement, I would like to do that...
...address the crowd. They introduce themselvesoPerry and Chessoand explain that they are the Harvard Krokodiloes. It seems kind of a disappointment that there are only two singers in the group, but the crowd is liquored up enough not to care. Because of artistic differences, the boys explain, they got rid of the rest of the group, and now perform high classical works. The crowd chuckles tentativley, someone blows a pitch and suddenly the two boys are crooning a gassed-up country song about "dee-troit barbeque ribs." From out of the audience, two more tuxedoed guys spin around and race...
...zapping broken blood vessels and spider veins on the face, hands and neck. But the process can be painful--just ask tough guy Mark Anfangar, 44, vice president of a Los Angeles party-equipment-rental company, who underwent some 1,000 zaps in one session alone to get rid of the angry red veins on his face. "Halfway through, I was dizzy," he admits. But it took only three days to heal, and he went back for another day of 800 zaps...
...Census, and call them "emergency" spending, which is outside the caps (but still must come from other revenues, like Social Security). With the second technique, known as "directed scorekeeping"--described by one Federal budget expert in private practice as "lying about the numbers"--they were able to get rid of over half of the remaining deficit...
...bullets sent to him at Simon's Rock College by a mail-order arms company. To my friend Greg, there is a straightforward conclusion to be drawn from the mystery of Galen's death. "We've just got too many guns in this country. We've got to get rid of them." Anyone who reads Gone Boy will find it hard to disagree...