They had got rid of them by applying enough pressure on the teacher so that the teacher wanted to leave.

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Ask Jeeves realized that pop-up ads and banner ads weren't working, so it got rid of them late last year.

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Priceline got rid of them in 2007.

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"The Treasury certainly saw both projects as very expensive and they would have like to have got rid of both of them, " says space historian Dave Wright.

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He got rid of both of them.

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He said history had shown that establishing grammar schools was "extremely difficult and... often leads to them being very unpopular and they are then got rid of".

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