Word: ridding
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...evacuation order. "I don't need much," he says. "I got 12 gallons of water in the house. I got those Army meals they handing out--pork and beans, Cajun beans. I got Chef Boyardee too. This city will be better when they rebuild because they'll be rid of a lot of them knuckleheads that was causing the problems here before...
...registration here, as he did at Yale a few years ago. The transition makes sense for several reasons. First, online registration is much more cost-effective than in-person registration. Online registration eliminates the expense of paying for retired teachers and others to oversee the process; it also gets rid of the high cost of paying workers to stuff almost 10,000 envelopes, and saves those same people from the extreme tedium of such a task...
...bucolic bliss. "Some property owners want servants, not caretakers," says Keith Cliver, 53, who with his wife Emily Moddelmog, 37, currently caretakes at the Oasis, a bird sanctuary in a former pecan orchard in Benson, Ariz. "We worked at an estate in Las Vegas where the owner eventually got rid of all the help and wanted the two of us to do everything 24/7." They quit shortly thereafter...
...people what they can eat. When Christians retooled Judaism, they didn't excise the Old Testament rules on adultery or idolizing graven images; they started drawing up plans for Tony Roma's and Red Lobsters. Martin Luther could have saved himself 94 theses just by posting one about getting rid of fish on Friday. The Scientology Celebrity Center in Hollywood has a Sunday brunch buffet you would not believe...
...feel great, though my recovery is still going slow. If I put the effort in and work at it, I think I'll be able to get rid of the canes forever. It's a goal I think I can reach. I'm busy with traveling and getting ready for school, but I still usually get physical therapy for about an hour a day. The only accommodation I need is a shower chair...