Word: ridding
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...short run, Chung's obsession with quality can be costly. Last year, he delayed the launch of a new Sonata in Korea for two months while engineers cleaned up 50 minor defects. In 2003, he asked Lee, the senior R&D executive, to get rid of an annoying noise made by grinding gears in the transmissions of Kia Amanti sedans. Lee worried that he'd have to shut down production entirely to work on the problem. "I told him that we'd lose two months of sales," he recalls. "The chairman said: 'If it's for quality...
Promptly removed, basal-cell carcinomas rarely pose a danger. There are several methods for getting rid of them. President Reagan's "pimple," and a similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon...
...large corporation, breezed to her third two-year term by defeating a former five-term mayor and chamber of commerce president, Louie Welch. Welch attempted to make Whitmire's support from the homosexual community a campaign issue, but it backfired when he remarked that one way to get rid of AIDS was to "shoot the queers...
...What would you do to reinvigorate the sitcom? I'd get rid of the laugh track, 'cause the writers don't write as funny, the actors don't act as funny...
...only time I ever heard Prof. Weitzman talk about horse manure before was in the context of New York City drowning in it at the turn of the last century,” the student said. “People didn’t know how to get rid of that stuff back then...