And one should never underestimate the tendency of a U.S. CEO to get rid of workers.
The U.S. government needs to rid itself of a bedrock tenet of American diplomacy that clearly fails.
In 2010, U.S. residents got rid of 152 million mobile devices, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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In July 1997, city officials in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, Arizona, paired up local police officers with U.S. Border Patrol agents in an attempt to rid the city of illegal immigrants.
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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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On Wednesday night, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that concerns have been raised recently by the U.S. Ambassador in Kabul about Karzai's ability to rid his country's government of corruption and mismanagement.
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Take, for example, Mr. Obama's announced intention to rid the planet of nuclear weapons.
Mr. Martin needs more than a magic flute to get rid of the rats.
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Ms. LINDA PHO (Teacher, Mary Bethune Elementary School): We had to get rid of everything.
The disarmament campaigners etc. argue that those powers could have done a lot more to get rid of those weapons.
The cost doesn't bother Sally, Mr. Rickard's Transylvanian hound, who likes being rid of all the excess hair.
It has 6, 500 now and needs only 2, 000, says Merrill Lynch. (That's assuming it matches the 1, 000 annual sales per dealership of Toyota, Nissan or Honda.) Absent a bankruptcy, getting rid of dealers is tricky because they're protected by state franchise laws.
We can reverse this progress, like the other side has talked about, or we can build on it. (Applause.) Now, unlike my opponent, I'm not going to let the oil companies write our energy plan. (Applause.) I'm not going to get rid of the wind energy tax credit that is helping to spur this incredibly dynamic sector of our economy.
It marks the first time the U.S. Department of Agriculture has teamed up with a state to develop a comprehensive plan for getting rid of the pigs.
And sadly, getting rid of the physical version of the paper, while it does get rid of those printing costs, also gets rid of the display advertising.
Mr Albrow also doffs his cap to Alain Touraine, a radical French sociologist who has been trying for two decades to rid sociology of the concept of society.
To get rid of one without getting rid of the other makes no sense.
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"They got rid of me, " says Mr. Rubin, of his departure from the firm.
And if we're asking for no revenue, then that means that we've got to get rid of a whole bunch of stuff.
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the Libyan people for their efforts to rid the country of the armed bands blamed for the killings.
After the war, Czechoslovaks were eager to rid their country of most of its German population.
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That is that once long term unemployment exists it is extremely difficult to get rid of.
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Tata Steel gave generous pensions to the thousands of workers it got rid of.
Intel is starting to run out of businesses it can get rid of.
One solution might be to split companies into good bits, which survive, and bad bits, which are got rid of.
Jason Tesarz, director of engineering at the high-performance integrator Torrey Point, agreed when asked what technology firms should get rid of.
Leave it to the Feds to write a job description for a position that most corporations are wondering how to get rid of.
Treat piracy as if it is an obstacle that you need to find a way around, not as something you need to get rid of.
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