Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME has learned that the Galante-Dellacroce conflict is ranging from Manhattan to Canada. The first casualties were two Galante spies discovered among Dellacroce's followers. The Little Lamb acted quickly to get rid of the black sheep; their bodies have not been found. Next, Dellacroce sent gunmen to Harlem to shoot a number of heroin dealers?then spread the word that Galante had ordered the hits. Dellacroce's goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released...
...sources admit is capable of accidents killing up to 45,000 people--these are our concerns. These are the issues that we feel are worth the strongest possible opposition, that are worth imprisonment. Until the threats of meltdown disasters, low-level radiation, perpetual waste storage, and nuclear terrorism are rid from our lives, none of us is safe. And we will not be rid of them until nuclear plants like Seabrook are defeated throughout the country, and existing plants are shut down...
Some who are skeptical about how much sacrifice is necessary are nevertheless willing to make personal decisions that, if multiplied by millions, would create the shifts Carter's plan seeks. Vance Nimrod of Greenville, Miss., does not intend to get rid of his current Cadillac, but vows: "I'll never buy another one." Richard Otis, a bricklayer in Memphis, had been thinking about buying a Lincoln Continental, but is now looking at smaller cars. Even without the possibility of increased oil-heating costs, Patty Hotchkiss, a town board member in Bedford, N.Y., is looking for a small, well-insulated house...
...sharply over the next several years, along with home heating costs. Some home builders in temperate and colder climates are now including wall and ceiling insulation, but much of the country's existing housing stock lacks proper protection. That may make it difficult for newhouse buyers to get rid of their old ones. Although it picked up last month, multifamily construction has been slack as the market continues to absorb a glut of new building of that type completed during the early 1970s...
...quest is for knowledge of Grun tu molani (the way to live). What he carries with him is the doom of self-doubt. "Well, Your Highness, you've got a good thing here," he says to Itelo, prince of the gentle Arnewi. But in a vainglorious attempt to rid the Arnewi of a plague of frogs, Henderson blows up their only reservoir. They cast him out of their mini-Eden along with his companion Romilayu, who had warned in vain: "Perhaps it better to guide no other than yourself...