Word: ridding
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...Campaign for Labor Rights, the goal is "to stop the meeting from happening." For Vaughan the aim is "to give us a voice at the table. We're not just fighting power," she says; "we're fighting specific policies." Munson's agenda is more sweeping: "We want to get rid of the World Bank...
...town, but that isn't giving those accused of corruption much cause for alarm. Putin on Wednesday succeeded where President Boris Yeltsin had twice failed - by getting Russia's upper chamber of parliament to dismiss general prosecutor Yuri Skuratov, Moscow's equivalent of the attorney general. But getting rid of Skuratov, who had refused to back down on an investigation into corruption inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign that Putin's power won't necessarily translate into an aggressive campaign against graft. "This...
...THEORY OF EVERYTHING? WILL WE FIGURE OUT HOW LIFE BEGAN? WILL WE CLONE A DINOSAUR? WILL WE KEEP EVOLVING? WILL ANYONE EVER RUN A 3-MINUTE MILE? WILL WE CONTROL THE WEATHER? CAN WE SAVE CALIFORNIA? WILL WE EVER TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? ...REACH ABSOLUTE ZERO? ...GET RID OF COCKROACHES? WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT TO DISCOVER...
Even if we did manage--against all odds--to rid a city of roaches, they would still do just fine. What the species really has going for it is wanderlust--and a penchant for traveling with people. That is how cockroaches first colonized the world, and that's how they're spreading today, hitchhiking on trains, planes, automobiles--even up the trousers of unknowing tourists. In Taiwan, for example, where it would have been a curiosity only 30 years ago, the German cockroach is happily entrenched. "The last living thing on the planet," says entomologist Roger Gold of Texas...
...necessarily as the place to which they're planning to return. Their lives and careers are here. Also, they're able to see beyond Fidel, to look at how Cuba can be changed after he's gone. But many of the older generation can't see beyond getting rid of Fidel...