Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort that would virtually rid the University of an obvious separation between Quad and River residents or black and white, this year is the first try at randomizing upper-class housing. First-years may "block" with up to 16 people of either sex and room with up to the same number of the same sex. While next year students will live in a house that already has an identity--artistic, athletic or whatever--in about three years, the houses theoretically will be completely mixed...
...some envelopes, went around some neighborhoods, I rode my bike around my neighborhood and dropped off some brochures. The other thing about him that I like is that he wants to push local control, and in New Hampshire we've certainly learned that that's the way to get rid of as much waste as possible. Because if you're right close to it, you see it, and if you're not there, how can you hope to grasp...
...Congress and the president, they're all, everyone's making a mess. We're the ones that suffer for it, the taxpayers.... Get rid of the Congress' salary, that's the first thing.... Get rid of the president altogether, he don't seem to do much...
Regarding the Holyoke Arcade and the Shops by Harvard, remember, we're only getting rid of all that "pricey kitsch" in those shops that weren't making any money and replacing them with aesthetically pleasing and profitable businesses like the Coop. This will also enable Harvard to continue remodelling and moving things around. (Have you ever seen the Coop or Holyoke Center NOT remodelling?) Shades of the U.S. military arms industry. --Kathleen Chaudhry
...Catcher in the Rye. Says Shabbir Safdar, co-founder of the activist group Voters' Telecommunications Watch: "They basically want to turn the Internet into Barney the dinosaur." The Clinton Administration opposed earlier versions of the decency bill but refused to hold up the entire telecommunications bill to get rid of it. Pressed on the issue, a defensive Vice President Al Gore told reporters, "We're obligated to administer the law, but we said from the start this particular provision will stand or fall in court...