Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some offer a Darwinian explanation for the backlash. Katy Sears-Williams, 42, a stockbroker and city council member in Santa Cruz, says, rather clinically, "It's an understandable and common reaction for any animal society to rid itself of those who aren't productive." Part of the reaction seems to stem from a common perception that the homeless of today are basically the crazies of the 1960s refurbished with a new name. "We called them the hippies, and the beatniks before that, and hoboes before that," says Sergeant Bill Aluffi of the Santa Cruz police. "Most of them, I think...
...Herbert Wechsler, one of the nation's foremost experts on federal-state relations. The San Antonio decision, he says, merely returns the high court to a position that it has held for 50 years. Wechsler argues that the 1976 decision was a "fluke" that the legal system is well rid of. "The Constitution gives Congress the power, without any qualifications, to regulate interstate commerce," the professor notes, "and this is interstate commerce" because the wages and hours of public employees, along with many other local government activities, affect the national economy...
...armed Shi'ite militiamen held angry antigovernment demonstrations. The gunmen staged marches, chanted "Death to Gemayel!" and called for the establishment of an Islamic republic in Lebanon. Though the demonstrators stayed only for the day, they infuriated the local Sunni Muslims. Said one community leader: "We just got rid of the Israelis, and now we have these people...
...that corporate maneuver, an investor buys up a large block of stock in a company and threatens to take it over in hopes that the firm's management will become frightened and buy the shares back at a higher price than the stockholders can get, just to get rid of the raider. Last summer, in such a ploy, Steinberg bought 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions. After a long battle with Disney management, he sold the stock to the company for $32 million more than he had paid for it. Says Lee Isgur, a longtime follower of Disney stock for Paine...
...Third World Students Alliance to ask others (whites)to generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences. If such Black students entertain any serious intention of aiding resolution of the crisis of social pathologies facing some one-third of Black Americans who are in or near poverty, they have to rid themselves of an immature and phony perspective toward ethnic leadership. Blacks with wealth and institutional resources will have to put some of these on the line (not just ethnocentric theatric)in order to upgrade the Black poor, or stop all the fast and easy talk about being Black leaders...