Word: ridding
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...illness among their personal battles, parity legislation isn't just about making health care more accessible, it's about making patients feel less ashamed of having mental health problems. Sen. Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, spoke with CNN after the President's speech Monday. "We want to get rid of the stigma so there's no more discrimination," he says. Domenici, whose daughter suffers from mental illness, is a sponsor of the Senate bill...
...Summers’s dispute with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, there was concern about his commitment to diversity from among several senior faculty members, according to one who said in the fall that she feared that Summers wanted to “get rid of Afro...
...originally talked to the Student Life Committee of the [council] and spoke to them about whether it would be a big deal if we got rid of the phone service,” Kinchla said...
These new lunch-hour face-lifts will not get rid of deep wrinkles. But they typically eliminate about half the fine wrinkles that make many boomer men and women look older than they feel. Both Cool Touch and IPL require three to five monthly treatments, at $250 to $550 apiece. For Biederman, who was originally treated by Weiss three years ago, this is a maintenance visit that she makes once or twice a year to keep her fibroblasts producing collagen. She has also had IPL treatments to get rid of spider veins and age spots, but she has never considered...
...Soviets lost more than 50,000 well-trained soldiers in Afghanistan. Getting rid of a warlord like Dostum or Khan might be even harder than defeating the Taliban. When U.S. forces fought the Taliban, they had the support of all the warlords because everybody despised Mullah Omar and Co. But these warlords have a knack for forging alliances—even among enemies, especially when foreigners try to impose their will on Afghanistan. Just ask the Russians...