Word: ridding
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...same time, it's wrong to think shifting consumer tastes have rid the roads of gas-sucking, top-heavy SUVs. Though total passenger-vehicle sales fell 1.9% in 2002, SUV sales rose 6.9%, to nearly 4 million--more than ever before--and only 1 million of those were the crossovers. The rest were traditional SUVs, which will pack the roads for years. And while SUV sales slipped 3% last month, the car companies are responding with rebates as high as $4,500 for hefty SUVS like the Dodge Durango. Car analysts at J.D. Power are predicting that by year...
...many Europeans are skeptical about Bush's policy toward Iraq. The only remaining superpower can do whatever it wants. And it will. This time, with Saddam, it is a good and morally justified case, but what comes next? What other dictator will Bush choose to get rid of? The world would be a better place without Saddam. But the U.S. should work with the U.N., get the go-ahead from the Security Council and then give him hell. DIRK NEGA Dusseldorf, Germany...
...grow. The possibility that Iraq or North Korea could acquire nuclear or highly lethal chemical weapons poses a deadly threat to their peoples, their regions and the world. The free peoples of the world, especially the French, Germans and Russians, need to fall in behind the United States to rid the Earth of its worst dictators. Just ask yourself, whose beliefs do you think will begin to build lasting peace, and whose will result in a more destructive...
...same time, Julius Caesar introduced the first off-street parking laws. In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers - and schemes to get rid of them. But now traffic is so bad - costing the European Union €40 billion a year - that some cities are getting serious about fighting back. This week, London careers into Europe's most radical traffic-control experiment of the past half-century. Every vehicle that enters the city center...
...Many colleges would get rid of binding early decision if others would do so as well, but each prefers to keep binding decision for itself, whatever the other does,” he says...