Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fund-raising machine, a triumph that has every potential to offend reform-minded voters. By drawing tens of millions of dollars to the Republican campaign chests, Gingrich and the G.O.P. congressional leadership have kept Washington awestruck for months. Republicans came to town promising to decontaminate the political process, to rid it of the corrupting pursuit of "special-interest" money, a chase in which Democrats were the undisputed frontrunners. But in the year since Republicans have taken power in Congress, they appear to have become ... Democrats, and then some...
...personally think of a Christmas tree as pretty darn secular. But if it can't be separated from its original Christian context, then let's get rid of it rather than turn dinner into a house-funded showcase of religious pluralism, as Tucker argues we must do out of fairness to all faiths. I gave house dues for microwaves, beer and dances--not a gallery of world religions. --Daniel K. Hamalainen...
...convention. Instead of a quick-tempered, bestial brute, Daniels casts Caliban as a calm, wry cynic. He thus lends a shrewd, cynical edge to lines usually spoken in anger or resentment: "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse; the red plague rid you for learning me your language...
...decision, Judge Edward F. Harrington rejected Ackerly Outdoor Advertising's request for a delay of the city's sign elimination deadline. The ruling bolsters the City Council's four-year campaign to rid the city's skyline of billboards...
...aggressive cost cutter. Observers both inside and outside CBS think that doesn't bode well. "Larry Tisch has cut costs considerably over the years," says Dennis McAlpine, media analyst at Josephthal, Lyon & Ross. "The headquarters at Black Rock is decimated. There isn't that much [left] to get rid of. And this is at a time when they're supposedly going to attract new programming to build the network up." Christopher Dixon, an analyst at Paine Webber, is a little more bullish, citing the strong station lineup that will result. "With the combined stations group, not just in television...