Word: rids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used." The artist manque appeared. Keynes began to regard money the way a painter looks at his palette. Understanding that currency confronts human beings with two great alternatives--hoarding or gambling--the sometime player at Monte Carlo defined money as "that which one accepts only to get rid of it." He raised monetary theory to poetry when he described money as "a subtle device for linking the present to the future...
...organizations, open or covert, in other countries, but it has not been particularly successful or skillful in this effort. We must understand that the most important task usually does not end but only begins with the overthrow of a dictator. In the wake of the Falklands defeat, Argentina got rid of its ruling generals, and as far as many Americans were concerned, that was it. But helping Argentina's fragile democracy survive is infinitely more difficult and demands far more skill--and more money. It is easy enough to cheer the new regime because it upholds civil liberties and human...
Water is a plotless wonder that vaguely whirlpools around the trials and tribulations of the people of Cascara, a mythical last remnant of the British Empire that the British would be only too happy to get rid of. Michael Caine is the colonial governor, sincerely concerned with the welfare of the people and his ganja crop. Brenda Vaccaro is the governor's Guatemalan wife with an unsavory past and personality. She doesn't get an "A" for originality with her Charo imitation and dialogue...
...first day on the job he fired half of the SBA's ten regional administrators in what has been called the April Fool's Day Massacre. Two other dismissals quickly followed. An archconservative, Heatherly wants to fill the vacancies with people who share the Administration's commitment to rid the SBA of inefficient programs and fold the rest into the Commerce Department...
...that the Administration should have had the courage of their convictions--or their animosities. "If we genuinely believe that Gaddafi is more than just a booking agent for terrorism," says Robert Kupperman, a terrorism expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "then covert means of getting rid of him should be considered. We seem to be dealing in niceties. We think we can use the larger instruments of warfare to bring about his elimination, but that we shouldn't use the smaller ones, such as a pistol...