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...must run a more moderate campaign than is consonant with Agnew's image, then he might well replace Agnew with a more suitable running mate. Or, should it seem necessary, he could name another conservative Republican, in hopes of holding voters on the right while still getting rid of Agnew's predictable fractiousness...
...Toward the end of the trial a newly promoted general named Nguyen Cao Ky said indignantly: "As I listen to all of the charges against [some of the lower-ranking] generals-dirty, sleeping with the wives of the soldiers, corrupt, disloyal, dishonest-I think we should get rid of them." The performance reflects so favorably on Ky. who is also a candidate for the presidency, that some cynics have suggested he might have had a hand in leaking the documents...
...noise. After a series of angry antinoise demonstrations last summer by citizens who live in three middle-and upper-middle-class neighborhoods near Los Angeles International Airport, the city decided the best bet would be to buy up the homes and dispose of them. The cost of getting rid of 1,936 dwellings, some with swimming pools, will be $300 million, making this suburban removal project one of the most costly in U.S. history...
...Social commitments to environmental protection, product safety and even workers' leisure have qualified the concept of productivity far beyond its original definition-which was based on pure efficiency. The fact that the U.S. has decided that some "inefficiencies" are necessary only makes the job of getting rid of the unnecessary ones that much more important...
AVIATION A U.S. Superjet for Japan? U.S. aircraft makers have been about as hopeful of selling their latest sky designs as dress manufacturers have been about getting rid of their midi stockpiles. Boeing's bid to usher the nation into the supersonic age, after all, was soundly rebuffed by the Senate, and the fate of Lockheed's L-1011 jet still hangs precariously in the Congress. Yet last week ailing Boeing, which has laid off more than 90,000 workers in the past three years, became the heavy favorite to develop a new line of jumbo aircraft...