Word: rid
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...later than the year 2001, the U.S. military will unilaterally abandon the use of mines, except to protect South Korea and the Persian Gulf. White House officials even suggest that the ban could begin as early as 1999. "We've all agreed we're going to have to get rid of land mines," says a senior Pentagon policymaker. "We have to lump them together with chemical and biological weapons. Even though we used them more carefully than other nations, we still agreed to scrap them...
Ethnic studies would complicate our perceptions on race. And that's what all good scholarship does. It helps us see the shades of grey in every picture. That doesn't sound very separatist. It sounds like people just want to learn more about other people, maybe get rid of some stereotypes...
...growth in annual deficits. And in the final weeks of negotiation, Republicans had to restore about $5 billion in spending that the President wanted. Head Start, the Commerce Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and AmeriCorps, Clinton's volunteer-service project--all things the G.O.P. had sworn to get rid of or cut--were funded at levels not far from White House targets...
...told my wife that maybe we ought to get rid of the rotary telephone we were renting from AT&T. Having a definition of senility hanging on the wall of your kitchen seems to me unwise under any circumstances...
Disney and ABC got rid of a nuisance, but Grant may be the real winner. When he returns to New York radio, as he surely will, he can blame the p.c. media for his firing. The rabid sorehead will be a professional martyr...