Word: ridding
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...accused him of treason. A shaken Abbas resigned the next day. An aide says he plans to go abroad as soon as a new government is formed. "Arafat's morale is high," says a top Palestinian official, "not because of Israel's threat against him but because he got rid of Abu Mazen...
...last quarter, so it's no secret that the firm is cutting costs. "Microsoft is moving steadily from ad-supported services to subscriber-supported services," says Rob Helm, director of research at Washington-based independent analysts Directions on Microsoft. "It saves a lot of money when it can get rid of entire infrastructures, so the savings made by getting rid of the whole thing may outweigh the marginal gain. It's a business move with social benefits." It remains to be seen whether MSN's shutdown will have much effect on the David Hippersons of this world. But regardless...
...problem with NCLB isn’t that it’s trying to get rid of those dumping grounds, but that it goes straight to the heart of America’s impoverished urban communities and brands the failing label into their schools, threatening fine institutions with sanctions and oversight. It acknowledges no difference between the most hopeful situations and the dumps that lost hope years ago. It calls good schools failures, and it fails as education reform...
...compassion shown by Americans on that "sad and terrible day." Sept. 11 is worth remembering for all those reasons and for one other, which is now proving impossible to forget. In his response to the attacks, Bush launched the U.S. on an unprecedented and hugely ambitious campaign to rid the world of terrorism, to remove those regimes that aided terrorists in the past or might do so in the future, and to ensure that weapons of mass destruction do not leach into the hands of terrorists or their sympathizers. But to do that, Bush set out an even grander effort...
...There are no excuses for being a vagabond." SAMAK SUNDARAVEJ, Governor of Bangkok, explaining his campaign to rid the city of homeless people ahead of the apec summit next month...