Word: ridded
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Over the past two decades we have learned that the best thing government can do is rid itself of involvement in the private economy. From Britain to Chile to China, privatization has everywhere proved an economic boon. Investing Social Security funds in the private economy is a total reversal of this salutary trend. The idea is to get government out of private industry...
...finished stocking up on 1[cent] stamps, here's another way to get rid of those dusty pennies. Just stop by a supermarket like Kroger or A&P, and drop your change (the silver stuff included) into a Coinstar machine, which gives you a voucher good for cash or groceries (less an 8.9% commission). To find a terminal, call...
...dealer. Since the Bellagio opened three months ago, Wynn has sold a number of pieces from the late 20th century: a Jasper Johns, a Lichtenstein, two Warhol pieces and Rauschenberg's The Small Red Painting, which purportedly went to billionaire publisher SI NEWHOUSE. "He has got rid of quite a few 20th century paintings and is starting to go into the Renaissance," says ALAN FELDMAN, Wynn's spokesman. In fact, he has added a Rembrandt, a Rubens and a Renoir. To those surprised by all this commerce, well, it is Vegas. "We're not a museum. We're a gallery...
...cooler was later found by fishermen.) Neither did anyone expect him to point the finger at another ex-mistress, Deborah MacIntyre, who, he says, "accidentally" shot Fahey as Capano tried to wrest a gun from her--an action he claims he later covered up by getting rid of the body, which has never been found. MacIntyre denies the entire story. "It's not a whodunit--it's a whodunwhat," says Cris Barrish, a local reporter...
...biographical sketches of eminent Britons in handbooks and dictionaries. When he did so, he discovered that a disproportionate number of these worthies were in some way related to one another. Ergo, he concluded, intelligence and talent were bestowed by heredity. "Could not," he wondered, "the undesirables be got rid of and the desirables multiplied...