Word: scrap
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...were pushed out of their homes by force; dissenters, including Izzat's brother, were executed. A few days before the war, most of the Arabs who had taken up residence in Dibagan left town, but not before they demolished houses, ransacked shops on the main street and plundered every scrap of metal that would move. Izzat's Arab tenants razed his crops, stole more than 200 chickens and ran off with his life savings. Now Izzat lives with his wife and nine children in a crumbling three-room guardhouse in a parking lot in Dibagan; every day a policeman comes...
...immigrants. Everyone—including President Bush these days—is quick to acknowledge the tremendous contribution of the millions who came through Ellis Island legally in the past. If Bush is serious about changing the profoundly unfair status quo, he owes it to the American people to scrap his torturous proposal and do something that will actually solve the problem...
...Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) has been open for business since 1948, and for most of that time it's been building, and gaming, its nuclear program. Long ago, Kim & Co. figured out a formula for extracting protection money from abroad in return for promising to scrap the nukes: make a deal, break the deal, then demand a new deal for more, issuing threats until you get what you want. So far, it's worked pretty well. Pyongyang got the previous President Bush to remove all U.S. nukes from South Korea to grease the 1991 North-South deal...
...hailed the offer as "a positive step" that "will allow us to move more rapidly toward the six-party framework talks." Lost in this feel-good chorus was any apparent recollection of the original objective of talks with the North: namely, to hold Pyongyang to its earlier promises to scrap its nuclear program completely and forever...
...accepted students is around 1490, a score in the 99th percentile. But as the SAT I gets a facelift—the newest version will be released in 2005—it’s time that the college admissions world reevaluate its use of the test and scrap it altogether...