Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process tries to weed out frivolous expenses, which was the rationale for why we didn't give out the full $36,000," he said. "In the best case scenario, every group would apply...
...stressed mentoring and after-school programs, such as those created under Bush's Operation Weed and Seed, as constructive ways of improving social relations in America...
Students emphasize that they use shopping period mainly to weed out classes they dislike or trim their lists of classes down to four, rather than to find classes they hadn't considered based on their descriptions in the course catalogue...
...movie Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman, takes place in the police precinct where I lived. In the movie, the neighborhood is depicted as an urban sinkhole, block after block of burned-out tenements, garbage-strewn streets and weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace...
...weakest arguments for the V chip in general is that it allows network television to offer more adult programming, since adults will be able to weed out what they do not want their children to view. Parents seem to want the best of all worlds. Rather than some cable television packages in which parents may chose note to subscribe to entire channels, or limit these channels to certain times of the day, they can avoid having to block out an entire network affiliate. Selective restriction seems to be a good compromise...