Word: ridding
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...AIDS epidemic under control, you need brilliant leaders like Dr. Fauci. But if you want to get rid of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS--not just harness it but completely eradicate it from infected individuals--you want Dr. David...
...loyal Reaganites, of course, a $1.3 trillion government diet pill was a soft sell. The tax cut was the surplus, and Washington was well rid of all that tempting extra cash. But to keep doomsaying Democrats from overrunning the place in 2002, Bush needs to prove to moderate skeptics that a Republican could cut taxes, build missile defense, boost education and balance a budget that began the year in a $125 billion surplus. But that money has quickly vanished. The tax cut took $78 billion in tax receipts and the idling economy another $40 billion, and Bush and the Democrats...
...first summer of John Kennedy's Presidency. There had been the Bay of Pigs in April, then the June summit in Vienna where Soviet boss Nikita Khruschev pounded the table in Kennedy's face and declared that partitioned Berlin was "a bone in my throat" he intended to be rid of soon...
...February, some Dayak tribesmen in central Kalimantan have kept the heads they cut off Madurese migrants as trophies of magic power. Indonesia has more than 1.2 million refugees from ethnic violence. Says sociologist Paulus Wirutomo: "There's a hate being kept alive in our culture. We have to get rid of this." Wahid tried but failed. And Megawati...
...cutie incident represented a setback in my war against spam, or junk e-mail. I used to get hundreds of these things a day, and some months ago, I vowed to rid my In box permanently of every last one. What I soon learned was that most e-mail software can't eradicate the junk without throwing babies out with the bath water...