Word: ridding
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...remember a couple of summers ago when the big news around New York was encephalitis. There were apparently these mosquitoes spreading West Nile virus all over New York, and random people started dropping dead. Then the city started spraying the various neighborhoods with insecticides at night to get rid of the mosquitoes, and everyone feared that the spraying was more dangerous than the bugs...
...mission, too, is not entirely clear. The U.S. wants to get rid of the Taliban because the ruling militia has provided sanctuary for an organization waging a vicious war of terrorism against America. But in order to achieve this, Washington wants the Taliban to be replaced by a broad-based government comprising all of Afghanistan's querulous tribes (including moderate breakaway Taliban elements) and the country's possessive neighbors. And that goal has partly governed the conduct of the war, for example discouraging the Northern Alliance from seizing Kabul for fear this would simply antagonize most Pashtuns. A broad post...
...principle which has served the University well...and I am opposed to getting rid of it,” Lewis said...
...Walking to and from the Quad—28 percent: Oh, Fortuna! Must I bear the trek for three long years? Yes, my child, what better way to rid yourself of the freshman...
...discrimination by gender is a principle that served the University well...and I am opposed to getting rid...