Word: rid
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...school system in upstate New York faces a year 2000 problem that has nothing to do with computers. Last month a couple living in Grand Island gave their local elementary school two years in which to rid itself of peanuts. Why? So their three-year-old son, who suffers from a severe allergy to peanuts, won't be exposed to peanut butter, peanut oil or even "peanut dust" when he enters kindergarten in the fall of 2000. This demand for a peanut ban has divided the community and placed school officials in a tough spot. Can't they accommodate this...
While officials may consider Russell Field safe for ballgames, they are still working to rid the area of asbestos...
...this is indeed how "Political Correctness" behaves, then I agree with all those critics who charge that it impoverishes political debate. In a nation that needs a desperate heart-to-heart about issues of racism, sexism, heterosexual privilege, and entrenched hierarchy, we need to get rid of this monster if it prevents us from engaging social issues substantively...
...Asia, will become one of the world's most severe Islamic states. Among Muslim nations, only Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan observe the undiluted Islamic law. This code of justice punishes a thief with amputation, an adulterer with a public flogging and a blasphemer with execution; a man can rid himself of a wife merely by saying "I divorce thee" three times. The more moderate Islamic states apply Shari'a to family and religion but not to legal and state matters. Take beards, for example: in Afghanistan, members of the ruling Taliban militia will grasp a passerby's facial hair...
...against the arch-rival Bulldogs would surely rid the team of its early season frustrations. But Brain Tompkins' Yale squad is strong at 2-2-1, and they are hungry after losses to Milwaukee and Connecticut. Yale, too, has had its offensive frustrations. After opening the season strongly, the Bulldogs have scored only one goal in their last two games...