Word: scrapped
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...light of the failures that have plagued the missile-defense program and the new dangers posed by the reality that Russia is no longer an enemy or a superpower, Bush should scrap costly national missile defense plans for a more limited program--or, preferably, no program...
Before I launch into my plan, which would scrap Hilles Library as we know it, I should first say that I am a huge fan of Hilles. Reserve readings are almost always available, an extremely talented and helpful staff is always on call, and the only time when the library sees one of its rooms get full is on Tuesday afternoons, when College administrators convene their Ad Board meetings on the penthouse floor...
...diplomatic wrangling to secure the defendants and set the unique location and parameters of the trial. They were based on the most intense investigation of a terrorist act ever conducted, one that minutely combed the rolling hills of more than 2,200 sq km of southwestern Scotland for every scrap of debris from Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up on Dec. 21, 1988 and crashed in a horrific fireball on the town of Lockerbie. The evidence-10,232 pages of testimony, 235 witnesses-was enough for the court to convict Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 48, for the murder...
...said it would pay first-quarter bonuses in stock, not cash. And just last week, the company told roughly half its 2,600 "nonessential" employees--those not involved in customer support--to take three unpaid Fridays off during a five-week period starting Feb. 2. Schwab quickly had to scrap the Friday plan for legal reasons. The leaves will now be "voluntary...
...swallows PCs and mainframes whole, grinds them up and a few minutes later spits them out in quarter-size pieces. A system of magnets, screens and electrical currents separates out aluminum and steel, while the remaining mixed metals go to Noranda Inc., a copper smelter in Quebec. The metal scrap HP produces by the ton has a higher percentage of copper than ore excavated from the ground, according to Bob Sippel, Noranda's vice president of recycling. Last year the Roseville operation retrieved more than $5 million worth of gold, copper, silver, aluminum and steel...