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Carey vowed to rid the union of Mob influence. His most effective campaign poster showed three pigs with their snouts buried in a trough of dollar bills. It read, THEY'RE FEASTING ON YOUR DUES. Carey painted his opponents as part of "the Old Guard" that was controlled by mobsters. In his victory speech he reiterated his promise: "To those who think that the Mafia is in charge, the party's over." Carey's first order as union president was to cut the job's $225,000 annual salary...
...metaphorical sense. I think there was an erosion of trust in the government on the subconscious level. On the conscious level, we moved on. We buried Oswald and got rid of Ruby. The nightmare went away. But subconsciously / the major fissure had occurred. Historians in the 21st century are going to point to this as a key moment in American history...
KIEV, Ukraine--Ukraine's president pledged last night to rid his newly independent republic of all nuclear weapons by the year...
When I did, I realized that they were not all foaming-at-the-mouth homophobes, hiding behind barely rational rhetoric and wanting ever so badly to "drop all pretenses" and just call for people to get rid of us queers; only some of them fall into that extreme category--writers whose rhetoric borders dangerously close to a call for violence against gays. No, the three members of Peninsula with whom I am familiar (Matthew J. McDonald, Adam Jones and Roger Landry) struck me as devout, well-intentioned young men who see a widespread problem on our campus (homosexuality), and want...
...constitution. But few political leaders would welcome a constitutional crisis when Turkey is seeking to show the European Community and its NATO allies that it is a stable, reliable partner. Says a Western diplomat in Ankara: "Demirel has a mandate not to be like Ozal -- but not to get rid of him either...