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...Reagan's presidential rivals were also jubilant. Said David Keene, George Bush's political director, who worked as Reagan's Southern strategist in 1976: "We're pleased to see him benching his first string. They managed to get rid of 90% of the people with talent in that campaign. Look at how Sears bagged us in the debate. Nobody else could have done it." With 47 Republican primaries and caucuses to go, Reagan now has to rely on a new team to undertake the services once performed by "Rasputin...
...appeals court reverses its decision, Silber said, "we would be able to get rid of the enormous expense and red tape caused by the process of collective bargaining...
Fujiwara, an associate professor at the Akita University School of Medicine in northern Japan, solved these problems in a sort of medical hat trick that is, as he puts it, "simplicity itself." Picking up cow lungs at local slaughterhouses, he scraped off their surfactant, rid it of most of its protein, modified it with the organic compounds, and put the resulting white powder into solution. That way, with a tube and syringe, he could propel it directly into an infant's air passages. To spread it over the lungs, he just moved his tiny patients about until the alveolar...
Although checks on the Retirement Board budget will continue next week, O'Brian said "it looks like we're not going to have to get rid of very much...
...plan, which makes grants to some of the nation's wealthiest school districts; and child nutrition programs that benefit upper-and middle-income families. But all these proposed $9.7 billion budget reductions are not likely to pass Congress. Says one senior budget maker: "The chances of getting rid of that money for beekeepers are zero, but this is exactly the kind of thing we must get rid of to pare down the budget...