Word: ridding
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Letterman took heat - when Howard Stern is criticizing your treatment of women, you know you've screwed up - and the questions came thick: Would viewers turn to Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno, if CBS didn't have to get rid of him altogether? And could Letterman tell sex jokes about politicians anymore? (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...pretty positive that with our appeal we might be able to get rid of that penalty,” Eiermann said. “Nothing on our part was intentional. I don’t think we got an advantage...
...that didn't make its intentions clear enough, earlier this year Citigroup publicly identified a number of businesses that it would like to get rid of. Among those that are still left are its insurance division Primerica and a home-loan business, CitiMortgage. At the time, Citi said it would like to hold on to much of its retail and corporate bank. A Citi spokesperson says that continues to be the bank's plan. In July, CEO Vikram Pandit told financial-news outlet Bloomberg that the bank is "moving extremely fast" on asset sales. He said the bank had already...
...danger of words, dangers that are especially great for one who wields them as skillfully as he. A promise beautifully made raises hopes especially high: we will revive the economy while we rein in our spending; we will make health care simpler, safer, cheaper, fairer. We will rid the earth of its most lethal weapons. We will turn green and clean. We will all just get along. (See pictures of eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...China looms ever larger in the global consciousness, anything we can glean about its leadership is especially valuable. There's one moral in Founding, however, that Beijing probably did not intend. Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, is briefing his father about his fight to rid the KMT of corruption and injustice. Chiang praises his son's idealism - and gently advises him to desist so as not to undermine the KMT at a critical juncture in the civil war. "If you go ahead," says Chiang, "you lose the party." But, the Generalissimo quietly adds...