Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Local tales of woe abound: there's the service-station owner who got rid of his after watching a neighbor lose his house and his car; or the young pizza-franchise manager in a neighboring county who has a criminal record after feeding the machines for weeks with his store's cash. "People have been losing their homes, their cars. Families are breaking up," said Jennings. "I had a client tell me, 'I want you to ban these things. I'm hooked, and the only way I can get away from them is if you take them away.'" So when...
STATUS When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, these former states possessed numerous nuclear weapons. All have rid themselves of the warheads and have acceded...
Apple co-founder STEVE JOBS has done a lot to shake up the company since he took over last year as interim CEO, but even the most devoted fans of the Mac may be shocked to hear what he's doing to their famous Apple logo: he's getting rid of the rainbow stripes. The new PowerBook G3 will feature an all-white Apple, and the one on the new iMac will be blue. Future Apple logos on the Mac will be white or another solid...
...protection was dismissed when she failed to show up in court. The nanny lives in California now and refuses to say what she saw that day. Through her daughter, the nanny says it was no picnic working for either Bipin or Ellen, and she's glad to be rid of them both...
...legacy is equally disturbing, says Chandler, pointing to the bloody coup staged by one-time Khmer Rouge lieutenant Hun Sen last year and the continuing political assassinations as the country prepares for elections in July that Hun Sen hopes will legitimize his regime. "In Cambodia you simply get rid of people...