Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David hires four locals to roof a cottage on his farm and rid it of rats. They think he's strange (a justified opinion), and grow to hate him. And they try to get back at him by flirting with his wife; two of them hunger for Army on her own, considerable, merits. The Sumners' pastorale closes with a squelch when a cat is hung in their closet, which Amy sees as a test of David: "They want to show you they can get into your bedroom...
...unfinished business," says Hoffman. "We have only made a feeble start." Actually, the U.N.D.P. has made a significant contribution to the quality of life in many countries. One of its first achievements was to rid North Africa and Asia of their historic plagues of locusts by means of cross-border aerial patrols and insecticide raids. Since 1966 the program's various studies-such as surveys that pinpoint copper lodes in Argentina, Panama and Turkey, iron ore in Chile and Gabon, and uranium in Somalia -have helped stimulate $5 billion in follow-up private investment. More than a third...
...Does the C.I.C. want the denominations to strip themselves immediately of all such investments? No, says Director Frank White, a United Church of Christ layman and former oil and car dealer. The center hopes that the churches will examine their investments closely, influence companies where they can and get rid of their stock only as a last resort -and then with pointed fanfare...
Wiesner. I think that's right, and I believe that we ought to get rid of all secrecy on such matters. I feel strongly about this. But I think that, until there is a change in the security laws, violations of security represent a form of civil disobedience, and when one undertakes to do that, he should do it for a reason. I don't think that there's an issue on this point that justifier either of us doing...
...international monetary upheaval also accelerated the great shrimp rush. Before the new currency rates were set, the Japanese wanted to get rid of some of their huge supply of U.S. dollars and used them to buy shrimp on world markets. Now that the yen is worth more in terms of "old" dollars-17% more when revaluation is completed-trading greenbacks for shrimp has become an even better bargain. Whether or not the shrimp is sounder than the dollar, the fact is that shrimp can be stockpiled safely for more than a year, and they are always in tremendous demand...