Word: banishing
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Certainly that need could not have been more driven, more powerful than it was in the political plague year just passing. We needed Mark McGwire in 1998, needed him desperately. He couldn't banish the stain of sleaze that leached through our public life this year, nor could he restore civility to our discourse or turn the media's attention to rotten schools or Serbian brutality. He is, after all, only a baseball player...
...mailing list I set up for the six friends I used to dine with every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity anything that arrives from that sender. The torrent of garbage hasn't diminished; I just don't see it anymore...
With the approaching millennium and the chance to banish the shadow of colonialism from modern Africa, Mwangi is also interested in hearing Mandela's views on South Africa's possible leadership role for the entire continent...
...Banish the phrases "I'm too busy," "I'm too tired," "I don't have time" and "I have so much work" from your lips. Forever...
There are dangers, but not the ones everyone's talking about, according to Princeton University molecular biologist Lee Silver, author of Remaking Eden (Avon Books). Silver believes that cloning is the technology that will finally make it possible to apply genetic engineering to humans. First, parents will want to banish inherited diseases like Tay-Sachs. Then they will try to eliminate predispositions to alcoholism and obesity. In the end, says Silver, they will attempt to augment normal traits like intelligence and athletic prowess...