Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parking place. Carter's limousine policy will save the Government only $12,000 a year in car-rental fees, but was a potent token of his determination to trim needless expenses and run a down-to-earth Administration. In a similar vein, the President is considering getting rid of some of the 29 presidential planes and mothballing the presidential yacht Sequoia...
...down the aisle in tennis shoes. "Jerry Ford promised me there was a bed somewhere on this thing." (In fact, the bed was in the forward section.) Air Force Two had been Henry Kissinger's flying State Department. "We had to have this plane specially exorcised to get rid of Kissinger's ghost," joked the vice-presidential press aide, Albert Eisele. There was no need to; Mondale won friends wherever he landed...
...essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when it was obvious that B was the motivation behind C, who was so important that he could not conceivably be strong-armed into oblivion. "It was the same trouble with everyone I tried to get rid of," Raven complains. "They all kept pushing themselves back in again for seemingly ungainsayable reasons...
...their reluctance to wage the war. Some, for example, failed to carry out orders, became chronic malingerers or were insubordinate to superiors. No one knows just how many cases there are, since many of these discharges were made, often capriciously, for a wide array of reasons to get rid of unwanted soldiers. Some of the war-resister groups insist there were about 700,000 veterans with less-than-honorable discharges and that all should have those records cleansed. Yet among them are many -very likely a majority-whose discharges were based on bad conduct, even criminal acts, totally unrelated...
...Incentive. At the time, the stores sold 25,000 different products, including sporting goods and pots and pans. "Get rid of all that garbage," Tandy ordered; he cut the line by 90%. He set out to blanket the nation with small stores in new shopping centers; he crammed them with radio merchandise and backed them with intensive advertising. Most important, Tandy devised an incentive system under which store managers (average age: 25) earn low salaries but can make up to $30,000 a year through profit sharing and bonuses tied to sales. "I want people who live for and will...