Once reviewers proposed to eliminate a reading passage about Mount Rushmore because the monument offends Lakota Indians, who consider the Black Hills of South Dakota a sacred site.

They work to eliminate the bad stuff like pollution, extinctions, overpopulation, weapons, because sick starving creatures in impoverished and threatened environments don't conquer at all.

In fact, they must eliminate the chemicals, known as CFC's, because an international treaty decrees that after the end of this year, these compounds cannot be legally produced for use in this country.

Last week TRW said it would eliminate 300 jobs in southern California because of cuts in secret Pentagon programs, probably spy satellites.

Similarly, Cioran attacks "those who try to eliminate the fear of death through artificial reasoning ... because it is absolutely impossible to cancel an organic fear by way of abstract constructs."

This year the Town of Huntington eliminated its Office of Consumer Protection because it duplicated efforts of a county agency.

Typhoid is more difficult to eliminate because symptomless 'carriers' can transmit the disease to others, although most of the few cases today are imported (see Chapter 7).

Elkins wanted Brenda Lowe eliminated because her perceived deviousness.

Patients' advocates said the 5-to-4 decision did not eliminate the need for Congressional action because state laws excluded millions of people who could be protected only through federal legislation.

"Do you eliminate an entire industry because you don't know its impact?"