Word: rid
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...landfill solution for getting rid of garbage has run into a problem that even the ingenuity of American enterprise might not be able to resolve--the imminent shortage of large tracts of land needed to serve as dumping sites. Also, public apprehension over the leakages of hazardous wastes at the Hooker Chemical Company's Love Canal site has aggravated fears of environmental dangers that landfills might bring...
Lance Morrow touches only briefly on violent crime, the most important issue facing our nation. No renewal is possible until we can control crime. To accomplish that we need to rid ourselves of the notion that the judicial system is for the rehabilitation of criminals. It is not and shouldn't be. We have to learn to stop apologizing to culprits and punish them...
...then there are those who go for the desolation--the freedom and the silence. They go to purge their souls, to rid themselves of the claustrophobic din of city life, to think, to be alone with...
Today those riches have dwindled, but salt domes may again be pressed into service, this time as a solution to one of the country's hottest energy problems: getting rid of nuclear wastes, which can stay dangerously radioactive for 10,000 years. Some scientists suggest storing this debris deep inside salt domes...
...funding deficit has forced the center to turn in another undesired direction. Over the years, Ulam says, the center has suffered most from the "persistent rumor" about its connection with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a rumor which Ulam vehemently denies. In an attempt to rid itself of that reputation, the center for many years made an effort not to do any government work. There has been one recorded exception to this rule: In the early 1950s the center undertook a project to study Soviet society for the Air Force, sending 20 interviewers to Munich to interview nearly 1900 former...