Word: ridding
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...eight of the abducted, including Megumi, are now dead. Most were in their 20s and 30s when they died, and North Korea claims each succumbed to either disease or natural disaster--two on the same day. Many Japanese are skeptical, believing the North Koreans murdered them to get rid of the evidence...
...healthier and more robust than ever, the Age 60 rule has come under a new challenge. Ten pilots have filed a petition with the FAA, claiming that the agency's establishment of the rule had nothing to do with safety but instead was a back-room deal to rid major airlines of highly paid senior pilots. The 76-page appeal, which uses previously unreleased documents obtained by the petitioners, claims that the agency has dismissed or ignored research showing that older pilots are as safe as their younger colleagues. "This is the government version of ceo fraud," says Bert Yetman...
While there are undoubtedly benefits to our actors learning from others, displacing Harvard students from productions held at the University is hardly the way to help them improve their acting. If Harvard is unwilling to get rid of these interlopers altogether, it should at least scale back their participation to a more reasonable 20 percent maximum so as to retain the benefits of their participation while maintaining the Harvard character of its shows...
...eight of the abducted, including Megumi, are now dead. Most were in their 20s and 30s when they died, and North Korea claims each succumbed to either disease or natural disaster?two on the same day. Many Japanese are skeptical, believing the North Koreans murdered them to get rid of the evidence...
...determined to smoke out the remaining rebels, and Zhang's arrest was made a top priority. He hid in a cellar beneath an uncle's home, then fled for the Soviet border. Later, he heard that a furious official had given a tacit shoot-to-kill order to be rid of him. Zhang dubs those days "the red terror," and claims that across China house-to-house searches, arbitrary detainments and death sentences for non-political crimes were employed by a government that "felt the need to make itself feared...