Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeing the individual's potential for guiding his own thoughts and tastes. The promise of life is not false. Nor is technology a monster to be slayed. The dehumanized, single-minded movement of the corporate state toward efficiency and growth and progress is what must be got rid of and technology put in its place, that is, subordinated...
...ever sustained by a U.S. corporation. Crown felt deeply wounded when the company's directors in 1965 and 1966 called in General Dynamics' preference stock, forcing him and his family to sell a $100 million holding. It seemed like an obvious attempt by the directors to get rid of Crown; he was so hurt that he severed all connection with the company...
...that the people are as friendly and outgoing and warm as we have always been led to believe. We are a homogeneous country. I don't find much sectionalism. There is some of that feeling in the South, but that is understandable, and they are trying to get rid of it. The South has been made a whipping boy too long...
...institutional structure itself won't be terribly bothered. Reaction and legislative restrictions will shut down the functioning of the University as a source of criticism, and preserve it only as an academic factory. Sure, the universities support and serve the government in much of its counter-revolutionary machinations. Getting rid of ROTC and the CFIA are fine self-cleansing rituals but, though symbolically important, will undermine the radical student power base if pressed to the point of shutting down the University...
...burst of activity began in January, soon after Caspar Weinberger succeeded Paul Rand Dixon as chairman. Weinberger revitalized the staff by getting rid of some mediocrities, and switched the commission's emphasis away from shielding businessmen against unfair competition to protecting consumers against deception...