Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend seems to be to get rid of the senile, insane and crippled people. Our next move will be to get rid of everyone...
...after a life spent mostly in the South, I find Northerners wondering why Southerners talk as if the past were real. I tell them that in the South, we have been busy for a long time trying to sort out the past worth keeping from the past worth getting rid of. It's a job that connects us with most of the world's people today-the vital business of achieving a particular identity in a plural world...
When a government agency does ask for the right to edit or censor research results, ORC negotiators "try to persuade the government against it. The task of the negotiators is to get rid of publication restrictions or anything that makes doing research difficult for researchers," Barstow says...
...expos course his freshman year, and then voluntarily enrolled in the upper-level journalism option his sophomore year. "If I could have taken the course three times, I would have," Wade said. "I think the course improved my writing skills 100 per cent. We learned to recognize jargon, get rid of cliches and verbosity, to make writing tighter, and to write under pressure. Even my letter writing to friends improved. All of a sudden the English language made sense...
Critics of this argument are always quick to cite the Health, Education and Welfare administrator who, when he heard that blacks weren't taking religious studies because they did not have a strong knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, two prerequisites, told the school to get rid of the two languages and include more modern languages. The analogy is too easily and inconsiderately applied. If there is no clear link between the scientific knowledge and clinical performance, then what is so outrageous about making the curriculum fit today's present need for more doctors in impoverished areas...