Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into their own hands. This raid alone had little chance of accomplishing that. But "if Saddam goes on playing the same game, he can expect the same response," says a British diplomat. "We hope some of those around him will see that the only sensible alternative is to get rid...
...frame dominated by a mass of wild, curly hair -- she circles the shop floor issuing compliments and critiques while staffers bustle to keep up. "Brilliant!" she pronounces a display of facial creams. "Fantastic!" for a pyramid of hair conditioner. But a tray of hair clips is "Tacky! Get rid of those." Later she sweeps into a meeting of store managers. "Right!" she barks to them. "What pisses...
...rocks after a spill destroy microorganisms that are an important part of the seaside's ecology. The surfaces of rocks are attractively cleaned but left biologically dead. In the Shetlands, nature will take care of most of the cleanup. "The sea is doing a tremendous job of getting rid of the stuff already," says David Hammond, who runs a salmon smokehouse 25 miles north of the wreck site. "I'm optimistic that we will not have much...
FIRST IT WAS UP. THEN IT WAS DOWN. THEN UP, then down. Up again, down again. Then up one last time before Cincinnati was finally rid of the specter of a cross raised by the Ku Klux Klan. The hate group's permit to display the cross finally expired a day before New Year's Eve. For nine days the cross inspired a festival of civil disobedience. Four times the Klan put it up, and three times protesters knocked it down. The list of those arrested for anti-Klan actions included seven whites and six blacks. Ironically, the Klan...
...cloud of smog pushed ozone readings above 0.35 parts per million on some days, severe enough to harm even healthy people and four times the level considered safe under, say, California law. In recent years Mexico City has started to shut down polluting factories, introduce lead-free fuels, get rid of diesel- powered buses, mandate emission controls on new cars, and even decree that vehicles be driven only six days a week. But with the number of cars growing 7% a year, ozone pollution still worsened 22% between 1990 and 1991. Today the city is looking at electric cars...