Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people were "to take matters into their own hands to force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside," he said, Iraq could quickly "rejoin the family of peace-loving nations." That finally put on the record something that had long been obvious: Washington would really like to get rid of Saddam and his regime altogether. It would settle for a complete pullout from Kuwait because it has no choice: the U.N. resolutions under which the allies are fighting specify that and nothing more as the aim. Achieving even that, however, might still take weeks of a hard-fought ground campaign...
...push-ups before work every morning. ("After you've done that, anything else for the rest of the day is a pleasure.") And as for his powerful position, just across the street from the White House, he can't be fired. President Bush very publicly tried to get rid of him last spring, but Seidman just as publicly stood his ground. This combination of confidence and courage is a very useful attribute because Seidman's main purposes are to sell off the charred debris of the S&L disaster and prevent any similar debacle from devastating the commercial banking system...
...thrown off, I jumped off," Seidman later told a reporter. "I had a better chance to land right." The horse dragged him some distance, though, and Seidman had to undergo two operations to repair a fractured pelvis and hip. He still uses a cane but hopes to get rid of it soon...
...December student demonstrations, belatedly inspired by the upheavals in the rest of the East bloc, forced concessions from the government of President Ramiz Alia, including promises of fair elections and economic reform. According to spokesman Polydoras in Athens, Alia is trying to rid himself of the Greeks before the vote scheduled for February because the ethnic group, which exceeds 10% of the population, is opposed to his rule...
...senior Communist Party functionary and former chief of the Latvian KGB. Conservatives in the 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies, banded together in a 500-strong group called Soyuz (Union), have blamed Bakatin for tolerating ethnic violence and demanded his resignation. The right, however, may not be rid of Bakatin for long. Some Kremlin watchers expect him to be named head of the President's new national security council...