Word: ridding
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...three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease...
While getting rid of Hussein is indeed a worthwhile endeavor, the tactics chosen by the Bush team are akin to using water to put out an electric fire--an ill-advised solution that can only make things worse. At best, fueling the opposition will lead to a bloody US-induced civil war ( la Afghanistan). At worst, it will simply provide an excuse for Hussein to send his army to exterminate rival factions in the northern and southern parts of Iraq...
Derwin Brown wound up winning the runoff election by a rate of 2 to 1. Not long afterward, J. Tom Morgan, the local district attorney, asked to meet him at the county courthouse. Morgan had been elected 10 years earlier on promises to rid the jail of corruption. The county has a long history, dating to the 1960s, of sheriffs being accused of fraud, bribery or cronyism. Now, he confided to Derwin, his office was targeting Dorsey...
...answer to such questions turned out to hover somewhere between "Maybe" and "Uh, no." The lesson of the past three decades, since Minimalism hove on the horizon (soon to be followed by Conceptual Art, which even got rid of the cinder blocks and left only a residue of words), is that in art people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written...
...three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease. Full Story...