Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most feminists, men and women are equal because deep down men and women are the same. Not sort of the same, not basically the same, but the same. Scrape away the social conditioning, smash through the corporate glass ceiling, get rid of all the historical biases, and what you have are two creatures who are equally capable of doing whatever the other can do. For these feminists, sexual equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically...
...physicians caution that taxol is not a cancer cure. "I've been giving it to patients who won't be cured by it," says Dr. Louis J. Ayash, an instructor in medicine at the Medical School. "It will never clearly get rid of the tumor...
...last victor, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, suffered the criticism of Illinois Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, who, as the first Black female senator ever, clearly represents those "arrogant elites." Moseley-Braun wanted the UDC to get rid of the Confederate Flag on their emblem. Fight on, Daughters...
...America. As more mills were built, their owners recruited young, single New England farm girls as laborers. When the "mill girls," as they were called, rebelled against the long hours and low wages, they were replaced by Irishmen fleeing the potato famine of the 1840s. In a scheme to rid downtown Lowell of the unwanted Irish workers, the Yankee mill owners donated an acre of land southwest of the city's center. The neighborhood became a gateway for generations of immigrants who went to Lowell in search of work and a better life. On wages of 75 cents...
...pretty much everything," said Saunders, who will start at linebacker Saturday. "It's everything I ever wanted. If I have any regrets about football, I can get rid of them in this one last game...