Word: ridding
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...also concerned that badware is making the public anxious and distrustful of technology because many people are confused about what is happening to their computers. “You don’t know what’s running, you don’t know how to get rid of it, it’s confusing,” he said. As a result, “people are trusting the Internet much less than before.” With the group’s debut, Harvard will be fighting badware both in and out of the Yard...
...Brown’s financial and marital problems. When wealthy Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) tells the broke Mr. Brown he must marry or will lose her financial assistance, he settles on Ms. Quickly (Celia Imrie), a horrid social climber. The children and Nanny McPhee must band together to rid themselves of these two terrors. The film is extremely visually arresting; its creative team dresses the characters in brightly colored clothes and perfectly fills the Brown house with quirky clutter. Both Lansbury and Staunton give gamely over-the-top performances, and Thompson shines as always, even beneath her disfiguring makeup...
...issue of how and when to transition from the Core Curriculum to the new system. Because of the deficiencies of the Core and the ostensible simplicity of a transition, the best course of action for current students is “instant implementation”—getting rid of the Core and moving all students to the new distribution system by next fall.The debate mainly concerns the recommendations of the Committee on General Education, which Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby recently announced would be brought before the Faculty as legislation in the middle of the semester...
...This is what happens in a democratic system. We've been saying for a long time the Palestinian Authority was rotten through and through. And the people knew it and got rid of them the minute they had the opportunity...
Virtually no one foresaw Hamas' surge. Pre-election polls generally gave Hamas, which was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, about a third of the vote. But when election day dawned, voters leaped at the chance to rid themselves of the incompetent and corrupt Fatah. "It's not that we love Hamas, but we didn't want Fatah anymore," says Samer Bafrawi, 26, a West Bank restaurateur. "It's a bad organization"--bad enough that he voted for the Islamists even though he says he is "not really religious at all." It was Hamas' commitment...