Word: ridding
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...friends and we expect them to give us democracy and security, to rebuild us and not destroy us." He said the Americans have come twice to his tent and he likes what he hears. "I have the idea that they have pure intentions, they just want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and establish security here...
...forces build up around the city, quick-reaction strikes could be supplanted by a more methodical combing of the area by U.S. ground troops. The city will be "sliced like a pizza," a Defense official says, into sectors that will be studied, cleared, probed and ultimately rid of Iraqi forces. The idea is that as U.S. units secure more and more territory, the regime's leaders would be pushed into an ever shrinking area. At the same time, the U.S. would seize control of city services like water, electricity and communications...
...important component of tax reform. Traditionally we thought of tax reform as, Let's go from here to there, cold turkey. You can do it in incremental steps. But the Administration is doing the candy part of tax reform, not doing the vegetable part. You are getting rid of the various forms of double taxation, which everyone affected will be happy about, but you are not putting fringe benefits in the tax base, an enormous issue not only for tax-reform policy but also for health-care policy...
Unfortunately for Stu, a psychopath has bugged that phone booth and listens to the conversations of all who use it. And, in an effort to rid the world of depravity, he’s decided to kill the immoral people he hears using that phone (think Seven...
This time around, there has been far less scope for miscalculation. The younger Bush has been nothing if not clear about his intention to get rid of Saddam. The dream in Washington was that once Iraq's leader was convinced of certain defeat, he would depart to stay alive. But among those who knew him, exile did not seem an option. Saddam's Arab honor would not permit him to flee. "He follows the code of the old-time Arab knights," says Toujan Faisal, a former Jordanian member of parliament. There are less romantic explanations as well. As head...