Word: ridding
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...year-old man who had tried to force his way into the military man's Mexico City home. "Of course he did the right thing," wrote Felipe Alcocer in one on-line forum on the incident. "I wish everyone would act in the same way and get rid of this anti-social scum...
...bikes at her shop. In January, however, she sold 42. Vindeni recently cut her staff by 10 people, to 65. She's reduced her inventory and lowered prices on some items. The Sportster is usually one of the slowest-selling models, "the ones we're trying to get rid of at the end of the year," she says. But soon after arriving at her showroom, the Sportster Iron 883 sold out. "They've been saying for a long time that it's important to capture the younger generation, but it never seemed to happen," says Vindeni. But the new Sportster...
...creeping czarism is also a way of exploiting the undemocratic yearning for strongmen, playing on the idea that compromise is fine when the stakes are small, but when the chips are down, only a tyrant will do. Generations of Russian dissidents braved prison, execution and revolution to rid their nation of czars. And the Founding Fathers so feared czarlike power that they fashioned a government intricately checked and balanced. Hard to imagine Madison and Mason agreeing to put the really difficult problems in the hands of unelected superstaffers...
...zone”—added that by creating outreach programs to educate community members and to provide rat-proof trash containers, Harvard has been “trying to be good neighbors” and actually “went out of [its] way” to rid a local church of rats...
...schools nearby to cut administrative costs. Among other drawbacks, critics say, the move could mean fewer scholarships, larger classes and teacher layoffs. But race is the thorniest issue by far. "We've made tremendous progress in Georgia," says Harp. "I just think it's the right time to get rid of this vestige of legal segregation." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...