Word: ridding
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...existing with the Palestinians, especially with a government next door now run by Hamas, now seems an impossibility to most of them. A vote for Kadima, says columnist Sima Kadmon of Yedioth Ahronoth, is nothing less than the "victory of the desire of most of the public to rid themselves of the Palestinians... It is the expression of the desire to see a border with a Jewish state on one side and a Palestinian state on the other...
...Mountain Institute. He found a kindred spirit in ASC president and CEO Pat O'Donnell, although the road to environmental enlightenment at ASC hasn't always been smooth. It took four years to persuade the company to retrofit a parking garage with fluorescent light fixtures, a move Schendler calculates rid the atmosphere of 300,000 lbs. of CO2 annually...
...reach for a commercial product or call a professional is that "they see a stain as a finished thing," she says. "They don't see how to break it down. But if you understand your stain and what it's made of, you can work out what will get rid of it." Take red wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb soda. The alkali negates the acid. You'll see straight away the stain change from...
...ever comes to a vote, DeWine's measure creating a new legal authority for the program may not get a lot of Democratic votes. But few Democrats, if any, will ever vote for a measure to get rid of the program entirely...
...that helps explain why President Bush raised the political stakes on the issue in his press conference this week. "I did notice that nobody from the Democratic Party has actually stood up and called for getting rid of the terrorist surveillance program," he said in his Tuesday session with reporters. "You know, if that's what they believe, if people in the party believe that, then they ought to stand...