Word: ridding
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...resistance really goes into fast-forward when patients with serious diseases like malaria and TB do not follow doctor's orders, often because they are poor and cannot afford a full course of medication. Instead, they take just enough medication to alleviate their symptoms but not enough to rid their system of the original infection. This has the effect of eliminating the drug-sensitive microbes from the lineup and encouraging the drug-resistant ones to grow...
...long it takes them to get back to the one dry platform researchers have positioned out of sight in a watery maze. There are now strong hints that retarding the development of plaques helps preserve intellectual performance, at least in rodents. And that raises an intriguing question: Might getting rid of plaques once they have developed do more than slow a patient's decline...
...CREDIT CARDS/DEBTS Get rid of them. That's standard advice, and it's not easy to follow. But you don't want to enter a period of weak pay increases and diminished job security with hard-to-afford debt. Pay down high-rate debt first, and because rates should decline, pay fixed-rate debt ahead of floating-rate debt. Cash is king. You will get a better deal on things like cars and major appliances as manufacturers lure back customers. Keep cash equal to at least three months' expenses if you can. That's less important when you're debt...
Usually that something is doing the laundry. Whenever Jonda goes down to her basement to wash clothes, she sees, tucked under the stairs, an old tandem stroller. Her father crafted it from spare parts, painted it white and wrapped rubber around its wooden wheels. Jonda won't get rid of the stroller, even though it provokes sorrow and anger toward the sister who walked out on her family. What Jonda doesn't know--and might never know...
...that doesn't work, Professor Otnes suggests that a popular way to get rid of bad gifts is to recycle them. I, for instance, have other brothers who like steak...