Word: discard
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...size. The Treasury Department responded a few years ago by increasing the size of its portraits to the same size as those on the mark and other European currencies and by adding large blank spaces to bills, also a feature of the old European currencies. It even attempted to discard the dollar in favor of a coin...
...visions are not original, not interesting and not resonant with the world’s youth. No aspect of the multimedia extravaganza that is Britney Spears now fulfills the potential she once mastered. For all the runaway popularity she once enjoyed, Spears has made her greatest step yet to discard it entirely...
...import, Since I Left You was undoubtedly the soundtrack to the summer. As an anonymous voice puts it, “Welcome to Paradise”—a tour-de-force of variations on “happy,” it compels you to discard your troubles and obligations and simply enjoy the moment. Also present is a more elusive touch of nostalgia which lingers long after one stops listening. This isn’t the stilted soul typically employed by dance subgenres in need of validation (deep house, atmospheric jungle, R&B-flavored 2-step); it?...
...establishing a program under which woodmakers would provide a warning sheet with each package of treated lumber shipped to retailers. But critics charge that the California law has been largely ignored and point out that the EPA program is strictly voluntary. Even when suppliers provide warnings, retailers may simply discard them with packing material before customers ever see them...
...Scaling Everest requires the enthusiasm and boosterism of a physical-education teacher combined with the survival instinct of a Green Beret. You have to want that summit. And if you whine and bitch along the way, your teammates might discard you before you get there. Erik, beneath his beard and quiet demeanor, was both booster and killer. "He was the heart and soul of our team," says Eric Alexander. "The guy's spirit won't let you quit...