Word: ridding
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...like having grit in a shoe that you never quite get rid of. One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life. And yet I still have the same passion for musicmaking and for expression. I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps...
...would, were there less unscheduled time to finish it all. Eliminating reading period from the calendar would also eliminate the onerous work accompanying it. Where workload must be standardized among many different course offerings, as in the Core, this would be particularly effective: Harvard could force professors to get rid of superfluous readings and to choose between a few shorter papers and a single research project...
When Pat Roitman turned 40, she began to notice red splotches and parched skin on her face. So she started taking quarterly trips from Detroit to New York City for medi-spa services. The airline employee, now 43, says microdermabrasion salt peels administered under a doctor's supervision have rid her face of blemishes and moisturized her dry skin. "I get a smoother surface on my face after a salt peel. I'm going after that porcelain-beautiful skin, and I want to do everything I can to have it," says Roitman...
...even though they have taken action to become more open. "It's hugely discriminatory and arbitrary," fumes Deborah Drummond, a Cayman Islands official. Tax avoidance, says Richard Schmalensee, dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, "is like graffiti or pollution: if you want to get rid of it completely you'll be disappointed." Drummond from the Cayman Islands concurs. "You can't prevent fraud from happening," she says, "but you need to be judged by what you do when it does happen. This is what gets missed...
This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...