Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willie Washington, a student at Boston State College, said that integration alone is "definitely not" the solution to Boston's racial problems. "What we need is an anti-racism movement by everyone--blacks, whites, and Spanish-speaking. We have to get rid of racist books, racist teachers, and racist officials," Washington said...
Such relative affluence is in large part the result of the exiles' hard work and ingenuity. But it also reflects the fact that a large percentage of the immigrants arrived with considerable professional and managerial skills. "Castro wanted to get rid of everyone who had run the country," explains Roberto Fabricio, a Cuban reporter for the Miami Herald. "Everyone who ran Cuba before la revolution is now in Miami...
...legal situation obviously varies from man to man, and because of the distinctions between evaders and deserters, the latter may find it more difficult to get off in court. But the Army appears eager to process and be rid of deserters; moreover, if the freshly discharged deserter skips out of alternative service, the Army cannot do anything unless it is able to prove that he intended to do so when he applied for amnesty. As for evaders, even a few Justice Department lawyers have been heard to admit that many would be better off going to court rather than taking...
Most previous attempts to rid statute books of these sacred cows have got nowhere. The special interests, confesses a White House economic aide, "come at you with hammers and knives" - as well as fat campaign contributions - and it is hard to arouse the public's interest. Most of the economists favored a package approach, in effect putting all the bad eggs into one basket that Congress would be asked to throw out. Unfortunately, they did not altogether win their point. The Ford Administration is likely to recommend repeal of some of the special-interest legislation, but it is unlikely...
...took Portugal more than 500 years to acquire its African empire-and less than six months to get rid of most of it. Last week Portuguese Guinea formally received its independence under the name of Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique was granted a black-dominated government. Angola alone of the old empire remains under full Portuguese control, largely because Lisbon does not know to whom it should hand over the keys of government...