Word: ridding
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...actor, and I manage Hollywood." His goal: to concentrate on products, not process, which has choked innovation at Sony. "We have to find a way to streamline the place," he says, "to focus on engineers and products and get out of the way." But he also has to rid the company of its infamous politics and divisional fiefdoms, where content units have clashed spectacularly with hardware departments over compatibility, copyright and distribution issues. "You have to break down the silo walls that helped iTunes clean our clock," he says. "You've got to collect people who buy into change...
...still very good," says Carell, who has two young children with his wife, fellow Daily Show and Second City alumnus Nancy Walls. "In the year and a half since I left, it's gone through the roof and won all kinds of accolades. I guess they needed to get rid of some dead weight." But while other Daily Show correspondents have been able to create amusing iterations of the soulless newscaster, Carell has been able to distill that character down to its most elemental trait--the faked confidence we all use to get by. It may be the perfect comedic...
...that birth control should not be taught in school, or in many cases, be available at all, the very same people who shooed Jocelyn Elders out of office for suggesting that masturbation was an alternative to sex, the very same people who’d love to get rid of the morning-after pill along with abortion, are the ones who claim to promote a culture of sexual morality...
...urban poor? Chidambaram: In urban areas, I believe that hardly anyone goes without food; there is always some kind of income. But their poverty stems from the environment in which they live?lack of sanitation, lack of drinking water, medical care. The answer to urban poverty is to get rid of the blight of slums and build proper homes with basic facilities...
Returning to the stage for a rip-roarin’ encore—one old song, one new—Schiltz grinned at the audience’s renewed applause. “You can’t get rid of us,” he drawled. If Longwave can continue to invigorate their genre with performances like Thursday’s, it’s hard not to find his warning reassuring...