Word: rids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with the "Black House" were "Satan-oriented," and cried, "May God get rid of the insurgents in this country...
...group of Portugese, "all dressed like extras from a '40's movie and smelling of garlic. They were afraid of the escalator and wouldn't go down it. And none of them could stand in line." Cooperson says they were found to be carrying fruit. When told to get rid of it, they began gobbling it down as fast as possible, and milling around in an uproar. "I hid in a corner," says Cooperson...
Undeniably, individual investors, who still own $1.95 trillion in equities, or two-thirds of all U.S. stock, have been getting rid of their holdings at a swift clip. In 1985 U.S. households sold $122 billion more in stock than they bought, a record. This year the net sales are projected to reach $105 billion...
...first goal has always been to eliminate ballistic missiles," he telephoned TIME to say last week. "They are the most destabilizing weapons, the most frightening. Then it has always been my hope, as I've said before, that we could eventually get rid of all nuclear weapons...
Still, despite the viruses' apparent potential for good, their much greater capacity for evil has been amply demonstrated. Smallpox. Yellow fever. Rabies. Polio. And now the cruel AIDS epidemic. Concludes David Baltimore: "You could get rid of all the viruses from the world and the world would not be the worse...