Word: rids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy ROTC cadet enrolled at Harvard offered an alternative explanation: that the military wants to get rid of homosexuals in its ranks. And while top Pentagon officials may not have designed the new screening policy as an overt purge of homosexuals, we can not help but think that the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS affected their deliberations...
...contras be replaced by U.S. troops, and the indecisive border skirmishing by a full-scale U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. As it is, Washington currently has only 750 troops on Honduran soil in a constantly fluctuating rotation that sometimes involves as many as 5,800. "The only way to get rid of the Sandinistas," says Conchita Canales, a Nicaraguan exile now working as a cook in the Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that island of Grenada." For the moment, though, it seems that the tensions and motions...
...least 2 1/2 months to get ready for a turnover, and everybody cooperates. We had none of that. Given all the problems we inherited, I think we should be appreciated for being able to do all that we have done. People forget so easily. They think that getting rid of Marcos was something that came naturally, as if it came down from heaven without our having to lift a finger...
...troubles, after all, have given him an opportunity to ride to the rescue once more and prove himself the indispensable man. The recent events, according to some, have invigorated him. "He didn't like the way he was pushed aside," says an intimate. "It took him forever to get rid of Wyman, and now he's enjoying it." For an aging broadcast legend, it is a sweet last hurrah...
...there was some dispute over whether a second failure should result in firing. Presidential Counsel Peter Wallison objected that dismissal "would be punitive." Shot back Education Secretary William Bennett, a hawk in the drug war: "It's meant to be punitive." Noting that his own plan for getting rid of drugs in schools called for expulsion of second-time offenders, Bennett asked: "How can you be harder on kids than you are on tax-supported federal workers?" In the end, the proposal won unanimous approval...