Word: ridding
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...medical schools have the money to provide financial assistance to students once they are enrolled, they should also be able to reduce or eliminate the so-called “processing fee” that students have to pay simply to apply. The first school to get rid of these fees would surely benefit from the publicity and a more diverse applicant pool that would also include a greater number of talented low-income students. Harvard Medical School, perhaps, should take charge and set an example for other schools to emulate...
Some parishes reported the effort a bust, but many others got results. At St. Patrick's in Rockville, Md., the Rev. Adam Park took a book along the first evening, but instead of reading it, heard confessions for two hours straight. "I think folks rediscovered that getting rid of that weight in a confidential setting can be a freeing experience," he says. Mary Ellen Gwynn, a nurse in Upper Marlboro, Md., who often drove by one of the campaign billboards, agrees: "It reminded me that while telling mistakes to a friend can be cathartic, this seems to do something deeper...
...fifty-something man who resides in a modest cinder block home along the village's primary road. He was appointed over a decade ago, at a meeting of residents advertised with a note pinned to the bus stop, and conducted on the street: It's purpose was to get rid of the previous chairman, denounced as a drunk, although when it came time to pick a replacement, there were no candidates. Eventually, the present chairman - whom most locals know only by his title, not his name - was nominated by a friend of his. When he failed to decline the nomination...
Pollinating bees may be a farmer's best friend, but that doesn't save them from being accidentally dosed by the pesticides used to rid fields of less welcome insects. One suspect is Imidacloprid, an insecticide ingredient discovered by Bayer. Now banned in France, it's been blamed for triggering a decline in bee populations. (Bayer denies that Imidacloprid is behind...
...attractive. Eighty percent of people thought I was doing the right thing during the Korean War shooting down MiG-15s, and probably 95% were supportive of the moon landing. Why risk such a career so that only 51% of people will tolerate me and 49% will want to get rid...