Word: discard
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...nine months later, no budgets have been busted or prosecutors ousted. Only the rare case merits review. Pfingst's team considers convictions before 1993, when the city started routine DNA testing. They discard cases if the defendant has been released. Of the 560 remaining files, they have re-examined 200, looking for cases with biological evidence and defendants who still claim innocence...
...more. The mood of these astronomical party poopers is to discard planets, not to find them; the children of tomorrow shall grow up to find all planets found, all lands mapped--all mysteries revealed as mundane facts. The new worlds we now seek ring not our own, but faint and distant suns--poor substitutes for Galileo's heirs...
...this be? The same process of investigation that lead to the concepts used in a car engine lead to evolutionary theory. Only hypocrisy or arbitrariness could allow us to discard one for the other. I shouldn't even have to say this, but as far as science goes, evolution is as "proven" as anything becomes. Numerous fields of evidence from vestigial structures to genetic correlation to documented speciation support the scientific community's acceptance of evolution. The volume of such evidence puts evolutionary theory alongside such staples of science as atomic theory or cell theory...
...completely from power for a couple of years--the power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should grow a beard, discard his ego and, for two years, listen to people. He should learn to walk like a normal human being...
...supposed to listen to each other in jazz," he said. "What you discard and what you elevate will determine your identity...