Word: ridding
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LEVY: We've spent $165 million to get rid of asbestos in this city...
...idea of overthrowing Milosevic. "The center of gravity of opposition has not only moved away from Draskovic," says TIME Belgrade reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "it has dissolved. Serbs have been demoralized by an opposition led by the same squabbling individuals for the past 10 years, who have failed to get rid of Milosevic despite an economic collapse and four wars that he started and lost." A growing number of Serbs have turned to a more diffuse, student-led protest movement, Otpor (meaning "resistance"). "Still, Otpor's plan was to put pressure on the traditional opposition leaders to create a single movement...
...seems like a no-brainer: Bacteria are evil and must be destroyed. And Americans have taken to the hunt with vigor, employing a dizzying array of "anti-bacterial" soap, cleansers and lotions in a desperate attempt to rid their environment of each and every last microbe. Unfortunately, say doctors, that vigilance could yield disastrous effects. In a move that sent the brass of the world's major soap companies running to their executive bathrooms, the American Medical Association announced Wednesday that they'd like to see the Food and Drug Administration step in and regulate anti-microbial agents in consumer...
...from the prosperous South to the famine-stricken North, progress may be slower when President Kim urges his host to curb a missile program that has put North Korea at the top of Washington's "rogue state" charts, and when Dear Leader Kim suggests that his guest get rid of the 30,000 U.S. troops dug in along the cease-fire line. Deep differences, in other words, may remain for some time, as Pyongyang makes its first, hesitant moves toward opening its doors to the world, ever fearful that such an opening could bring the edifice of its personality-cult...
...were...WW II military veterans anxious to get on with earnest study after three dead-brain years of doing grunt-work duty getting rid of dictators abroad," McMurtrie wrote...