Word: ridding
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Asked what lessons he’s learned about nuclear weapons, he said, “Get rid of them...we don’t need 7,500 ourselves. It would be possible, it should be possible, and you are the ones who can make it possible...
...more Harvard can do. An important way to improve Summers’ package is to do away with student loans, just as Princeton’s did in 2001. While Harvard graduates students with significantly smaller loan debt in comparison to the national average, eliminating loans completely would get rid of applicants’ anxiety about having debts to pay before even leaving college. Debt can be a daunting hurdle to clear, regardless of the amount. Harvard should do all it can to empower lower-income students during their four years here on campus and after they graduate. Burdening...
...trial for allegedly lying to the feds about why she dumped stock of biotech firm ImClone Systems in late 2001. When the two were staying at a luxury resort in Mexico in the days after Stewart sold her shares, Pasternak testified, Stewart confided that she had got rid of them because she knew that ImClone CEO Sam Waksal, their mutual friend, and his daughters had tried to dump their stock. "Isn't it nice to have brokers who tell you those things?" Stewart said, according to Pasternak. Another memorable quote from a memorable trial--until Pasternak, under cross-examination...
...Port-au-Prince airport and presidential palace, and national security consists of a few hundred guerrillas-along with a few thousand cops who belong to one of the Caribbean?s most threadbare police forces. ?This is not the way things were supposed to be once we were rid of Aristide,? said businessman Jean Robert, 57, as he helped clean up the police station looted by mobs in the capital?s Petion Ville district. ?I could go back and live in the U.S., but I?m staying, because we?ve got to change the way things are done here...
...budget co-productions to digital projection. After investing some $24 million in 20 films between 2000 and 2003, it saw them bring in $230 million at the box office. It could be a while, though, before Britain enjoys such dynamic numbers again. In February, the Inland Revenue got rid of a tax break that gave relief to film investors - who spent over $2 billion in the country last year - effectively cutting off millions in funding for current projects...