Word: nixed
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...Several over-the-counter remedies are available to treat louse outbreaks; pharmacists and schools will generally recommend products such as Nix rinse or Rid shampoo. These are helpful, but parents must follow the directions carefully and reapply the treatment after the prescribed number of days. Also, some lice seem resistant to the insecticides used in these products, so there's no substitute for checking and re-checking your child's scalp...
...election will nominate its candidate this week. It's been bumped not just by such obvious candidates as "Survivor" and "Big Brother," but even by football and reruns of "Third Rock From the Sun." And with good reason: The viewing public has long ago voted with its remotes to nix prime-time convention coverage...
RICHARD PERLE Advises Israel to nix a peace deal w/o Jerusalem. Say bye to Defense Sec job with Bush
...were brought to Fiji by the British 100 years ago to pick sugar - must accept second-class citizenship. The gunman's toppling of the country's first ethnic-Indian leader appears to have captured the imagination of many indigenous Fijians, and prompted the Fijian army to seize power and nix the constitution. Still, Speight refuses to free his hostages until he and his cronies are given a direct role in ruling the country. Speight's action also inspired gunmen from another aggrieved group, the Malaitans, to grab Ulufa'alu, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands, as part...
...troops mill around the capital, not when they are stationed far off on the Golan. No one knows this brutal fact better than Assad, who himself seized power by coup d'etat in 1970 as an air force general. What a glorious moment for Assad should the Israeli public nix the agreement: his country financially compensated without having to pay a regime-threatening price, his historic enemy Israel humiliated on the world stage, and Syria's assertion of Israel's aggressive intentions seemingly vindicated...