Word: ridding
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...While U.S. officials like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talk of aggressive new strategies to get rid of Saddam, Powell speaks mainly of reinvigorating the sanctions. To do that, he will need to convince Arab and European allies that Saddam is playing and winning a propaganda game by letting his people starve. And to bring the allies back aboard, Powell will need to draw up an approach that reduces civilian hardships while concentrating embargoes on things that count. Powell has taken to saying sanctions are really about ensuring that Iraq complies with 1991 cease-fire agreements...
Some higher-education groups have argued that we should get rid of the term "binge drinking." The Inter-Association Task Force on Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse Issues, founded by the oddly named BACCHUS (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students) of the U.S. Inc., asked its 21 member organizations to pass resolutions seeking the removal of "binge" from media coverage of college drinking...
...frightened. Then, harder still, she told her mother. Her mother raged about the loss of money if Laetitia could not work again. She was so angry she ordered Laetitia out of the house. When her daughter wouldn't leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone in a cramped, dark space without windows and only a flimsy door opening into the alley. Laetitia must earn the pennies to feed herself and her children by peddling beer, cigarettes...
...plans was to give principals more authority to transfer teachers to different schools, for staffing or disciplinary purposes. But she was won over by his collaborative leadership style and his ability to get results where his predecessors had failed. Paige promised, for instance, that within three years, he would rid the district of what Fallon calls "deadwood principals"--the system's longtime underperformers. "Some of them came with the first brick in the building," Fallon says. "We figured nothing was going to blast them out." Three years later, though, those principals had either retired or been demoted. The skeptics, says...
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has been in deep trouble ever since his opposition released tapes purporting to be recordings of the president ordering his interior minister to "get rid" of a critical journalist whose decapitated body was discovered late last year. As pressure mounts on Kuchma to resign, he met Monday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Given Kuchma's flirtation with NATO in recent years, Putin's got to be loving this scandal...