Word: ridding
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...state constitution is the third longest in the world, and it has more than 500 amendments. But to gather this convention, Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman has to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot. "It's ironic, right? We need an initiative," he says, "to get rid of the initiative...
Second, it is most important to keep the memory of the great sacrifices alive that had to be made to put an end to the terror of National Socialism and to liberate its victims and to rid all people of its yoke. This is why I want to say a particular word of gratitude to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, for visiting this particular memorial. It gives me an opportunity to align yet again that we Germans shall never forget, and we owe the fact that we were given the opportunity after...
...Microsoft tends to name its internal projects after cities. Natal is a city in Brazil, which is where Alex Kipman, one of the key engineers on Project Natal, comes from. What Mattrick and Kipman decided to try to do was to get rid of the controller altogether. They wanted a technology that would enable a gamer to control the game just by moving his or her arms and legs and other body parts. The gamer would become the controller. (Read "Why Video Games Are an Excellent Economic Indicator...
...While it's not part of the chief restructuring officer's job description, Koch will also be responsible for getting rid of a lot of very bad industrial karma. "The GM that many of you knew, the GM that let many of us down, is history," says Henderson...
...That doesn't mean Koch won't be busy. "They're going to get all the cats and dogs," says Van Conway, a corporate-restructuring expert from Birmingham, Mich. "It's probably going to take a couple of years to get rid of them all." (Watch a video about an optimistic Dodge dealer...