Word: abolishing
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...Life Sciences archives so I could indulge my somnolent nature—and missing out on the potential for a $20 bill barely crosses my mind as I reach for the snooze button. If the administrators of this course want to incentivize promptness in the future, they should abolish the electronic safety net and let the natural consequences of academic negligence—namely, poor test scores—speak for themselves...
King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan is trying to abolish himself. The enlightened monarch of this tiny Himalayan kingdom, who has introduced such innovations as the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure Bhutan's wealth, is now urging his people to get rid of him. "Monarchy is not the best form of government," he said last month at a stop on his anti-royalty campaign in the northern town of Haa. "It has many flaws...
...Jordan to Syria. He was held for a year, and says he was beaten. Before 2001, it would have been inconceivable for the U.S. to send anyone to a country with Syria's long record of torture. Public discontent means Congress may yet feel impelled to regulate or abolish rendition. A greater potential downside of the Bush team's walk on the "dark side" is the fraying of the international coalition of intelligence services - including those in Europe - that have been cooperating in unprecedented ways. This solidarity is one of the unsung successes of the last four years...
...full week after the storm. Coast Guard personnel helped his deputies commandeer boats and rescue thousands. So last week, when two representatives from the U.S. Government Accountability Office came to ask how he would fix the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), he had his answer ready: "I would abolish it," he told them. "I'd blow up FEMA and ask the Coast Guard what it needs...
...wasn't victor of the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson, that Bush was channeling; it should have been a bronzed Lyndon Johnson by the Presidential side. To be sure, Bush has never been a small government conservative; he didn't come to office, for instance, vowing to abolish the Department of Education; he expanded it. But no one could have foreseen the massive expansion of government under his reign-the creation of a new prescription drug entitlement, the invasion of two countries on the Asian continent, the greatest realignment of the federal government in history. And now the wholesale...