Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Doctors have found evidence that gene therapy could help people who are suffering from extremely high levels of cholesterol in their blood. Two years after implanting a 30-year-old woman's liver with the gene that she lacks to get rid of the fatty substance, they report that the so-called bad cholesterol in her blood has dropped dramatically...
Stephanopoulos was also on the phone to Steiner. That was the conversation in which he says he "blew off steam" about Stephens. Again, others describe the conversation differently. They say Stephanopoulos began with the classic "this conversation never happened" line and proceeded to ask Steiner, "How can we get rid of Stephens?" After further contacts between Steiner and Stephanopoulos, the conclusion reportedly was that Stephens could not be removed easily, so the subject was finally dropped. Steiner will testify before Fiske's grand jury this week, and Fiske and his assistants will be able to question him on the basis...
...quit: I think they're trying to get rid of student drivers--they want to get rid of the radios...
...object with use-value (to be sold, or taken, by a "pirate" boyfriend; to be "pirated," appropriated for gain, by the body's owner) and the body as a source of fear (to a "prude") are intimately related, and that neither point of view can be got rid of. Maybe the "pirate" and the "prude" are the only options we have--maybe you either run from yourself, or "self" yourself, and what would you do about love and sex if that turned out to be true? Pirate Prude is a pop record--a genuine pop record; you can hum everything...
...there was a way of getting rid of theunion, I think we'd be better off," says Sage,adding that the union can not be blamed for thefailure to produce an agreement...