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...This federal blackmail, I figured, must be a plot to accelerate human roadkills--take away stationary place to drink, then provide more highway space on which to go drinking and driving. With natural selection fading out of vogue, the government must have thought this was the perfect way to rid our nation of the stupid and dangerous. And for us innocent civilians?--pah! let us dodge...
...follows "blah blah blah blah, blah, blah." But my eyes lit up when I came to the part that said "I heard you didn't massage enough people's buttocks to become president. Sounds like a shame. I have a great idea for staging a coup to get rid of Cohen, though. If you'd like to hear about it, give me a call...
...country has been taken over by Leninists who have shut down the opposition, destroyed a free press, repressed the church and run a secret police "advised" by Cubans and East Germans. As the President of Costa Rica put it, the "Nicaraguan people . . . have fought so hard to get rid of one tyrant, one dictator, and seven years later they have nine...
murder to rid their offices of mice, but when they...
...academics agree, though, that most companies have no choice but to shape up. Says General Electric Chairman John Welch: "The managers in the 1980s who hang onto losing business ventures for whatever reason won't be around in 1990." A less somber view is that the corporations that rid themselves of bureaucratic excess now stand to be among the healthiest entrants in the strenuous competition of the future...