Word: ridding
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...fiscal deficits and started the Virginia Health Care Foundation, which provides health care to thousands of Virginians. Despite his speech’s centrist overtones, he took care to include progressive themes. “Being part of the sensible center does not mean that we have to get rid of our progressive ideals,” he said. Warner came to campus as a guest of IOP Fellow Adam Nagourney, the national political reporter at the New York Times, and spoke to a group of Harvard College Democrats. The Harvard Dems sent 18 undergraduates to Virginia this fall...
...Arbogast Department of Geography Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Huber wrote that we lack the political will to do what is necessary to continue to use oil indefinitely. He is mistaken. Inaction ensures that oil dependence is here to stay. We lack the political will to rid ourselves of reliance on a substance that damages our environment, our economy, our society and our security, and that befouls all that it touches. Louis Pradt Wausau, Wisconsin...
...that his film about alcoholism “Stuart Saves the Day” was screened for Limbaugh when he went to rehab. Franken also made pointed remarks against President Bush and the rest of his administration. “We’ve got to get rid of these guys,” Franken said. He said he even hopes that the mid-term 2006 elections will be a showcase for “subpoena power,” with voters punishing the Republicans for current scandals involving Tom DeLay and I. Lewis “Scooter?...
Unlike many outsider CEOs, Zander kept most of the existing top managers. He did get rid of the CEO's palatial executive suite, complete with private bathroom and treadmill. With so much space, "Who do I talk to?" he asks, laughing. He now sits with the other top managers in a cluster of modest glass-fronted offices. His isn't even the largest, and his secretary gets the view. Ask Motorola executives about their CEO, and they are almost as likely to tease him--about his taste for what he calls cooked sushi or his complaints about the commute...
...members kept the society completely secret, and election nights were particularly perilous for the clandestine meetings. When two non-members suddenly burst into a meeting, Phillips describes, the members scrambled to hide the record book. To rid themselves of one intruder’s presence, the Clubbers encouraged the girl to take a nap. Luckily for them, it worked...