verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eliminate a deficit (= completely get rid of it )
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His proposals have so far failed to eliminate the deficit.
eliminate a hazard (= get rid of a hazard )
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They took steps to eliminate all potential fire hazards.
eliminate risk (= remove risk completely )
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You can’t eliminate risk in your life completely.
eliminate the need for sth ( also obviate the need for sth formal ) (= make something unnecessary )
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The new drug treatment eliminates the need for surgery.
remove/eliminate/lift barriers
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Will this remove the barriers to change?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
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I am not saying that the diet will completely eliminate cellulite but I do believe it will significantly reduce it.
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Republicans would completely eliminate income restrictions for participation in IRAs.
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Some of these O 3 datasets have been analysed without completely eliminating the dynamical variations related to the quasi-biennial oscillation.
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Vomiting does not completely eliminate all food from the stomach.
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One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs.
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This completely eliminates the problem without wasting any card!
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They avoid the expense of large cabinets and wind and vibration problems are completely eliminated .
virtually
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The problem is virtually eliminated in commercially grown mussels, by harvesting them before they are five years old.
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Countries now routinely providing vitamin A have virtually eliminated vitamin Arelated blindness and death.
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A few candidates may virtually eliminate themselves by their hesitancy and you can even consider refusing to continue the interview.
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Those are the costs Proposition 186 would virtually eliminate .
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For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism.
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He reacted rather than acted, and that virtually eliminates all of his effectiveness.
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Absentee landlords and large concentrations of landholdings were virtually eliminated .
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By being able to hand a printer finished artwork the cost of several stages of labour intensive work can be virtually eliminated .
■ NOUN
deduction
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Still, concern about home-buying is why Alexander charges that eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would cause a real-estate crash.
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In return for simplicity, it would eliminate popular deductions for charitable contributions, state and local taxes and home-mortgage interest.
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Some proposals, including Forbes', would eliminate all tax deductions .
deficit
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But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit .
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It had eliminated the large budget deficits of the early 1980s and was in fiscal balance.
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But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits .
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They are divided for months over how to eliminate the budget deficit .
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But he has not specified which government programs would be reduced to pay for the tax cuts and eliminate the deficit .
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But pressure to eliminate the budget deficit , said Vest, is likely to lead to diminished help from Washington.
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Most money managers are convinced President Clinton and congressional Republicans will strike a deal to eliminate the federal budget deficit .
effort
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Storage of materials and the effort of mixing are eliminated by using ready-mixed concrete, which is available in two forms.
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But efforts to merge or eliminate any of them will run into political problems.
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The masks are only the latest in a number of measures in the effort to eliminate deaths by tiger attacks.
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It allows a manufacturer to incorporate its suppliers' efforts toward eliminating waste in the upstream portion of the manufacturing cycle.
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That effort has already eliminated several hundred administrative jobs in its East Bay divisions.
job
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And when that didn't drain off enough cash, yet another assistance plan required the state to eliminate 120,000 jobs .
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The Los Angeles Times will close some sections and eliminate 150 editorial jobs .
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It will also eliminate 500 jobs through attrition and lay-offs at its Armonk headquarters.
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The maker of printing chemicals said it intends to eliminate about 100 jobs , reducing its work force to about 500.
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For example, some companies have moved their employees across the country and then eliminated their jobs .
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His pledge to halve the deficit over the next four years is largely based on eliminating 100,000 government jobs .
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C., Jackson Mills announced it was closing altogether, eliminating nearly 400 jobs .
need
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Dedicated to non-man entry sewer repair and maintenance, the Sika-Robot cuts costs by eliminating the need to excavate pipes.
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This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.
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This also eliminates the need to scroll to find data, which would defeat the purpose of having a command centre.
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The soft new mud automatically eliminated the need for plowing and fertilization.
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The operation made financial and environmental sense by eliminating the need to use a hazardous waste site.
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That eliminated the need for a new check.
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Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people.
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It does not eliminate the need for saving.
plan
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The original plan was to eliminate tariffs on most goods by 2004.
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By June 19, one of the geographic split plans may be eliminated .
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The new plan would eliminate the mandated middleman and allow retailers to buy directly from suppliers.
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Do I have a plan to eliminate it?
position
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In 1990, Brezzo eliminated the museum staff position of controller.
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He hopes the next council will eliminate the position .
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He estimated $ 1.5 million in savings by eliminating the 34 teaching positions .
possibility
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This eliminates the possibility of the wrong person being updated, and enables the operator to see if any details are incorrect.
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More important, no changes are made in the system to eliminate the possibility of another pilot making the same error.
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The bi-word filter eliminated some possibilities but was not good enough to find a single interpretation.
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It eliminates all possibilities of revolts and ensures absolute obedience in everything.
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On visits to both bureaux, we felt that their working practices eliminate any reasonable possibility of this happening.
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That the practice of spiritual marriages can not with any certainty be traced back into the first century eliminates the third possibility .
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Prospective students tend to consider the multi-media scheme after eliminating other possibilities .
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Too early death, or severe infirmity, or excessive distance could eliminate any possibility of a significant relationship.
problem
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This has eliminated the fly problem , and is the strategy that would be used immediately if a fly outbreak occurred again.
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By combining long and short strips of two different metals-brass and steel-in one pendulum, Harrison eliminated the problem .
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Water cooling eliminates the problem in mainframe computers, but smaller machinery must find an alternative.
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Object: To eliminate structural problems without having to reread your document or waste time cutting and pasting paragraphs.
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If so, check every document you write for several weeks to correct and ultimately eliminate this problem .
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And in his later work the careful dating supplied by Picasso himself eliminates any chronological problem .
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This completely eliminates the problem without wasting any card!
program
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S.-imposed requirements, most having to do with eliminating programs , cutting staff and slashing budgets.
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Most of our leaders assume that the only way to cut spending is to eliminate programs , agencies, and employees.
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Since the crashes, the Navy has eliminated a program that allowed navigators, weapons experts and radio officers to become pilots.
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Dan Miller, R-Fla., have indicated they will try to eliminate the sugar program .
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School principals in Chicago sued to eliminate the reform program that took away their lifetime job security.
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Dole has endorsed a California ballot measure that would eliminate affirmative action programs .
risk
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A few precautions are advisable to eliminate any risk that may exist in a domestic situation.
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This will lower but not eliminate the risk of infection.
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In any event, the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers.
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Research will never eliminate risk , but it minimizes it.
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For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism.
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In contrast, the engineer's ambition is to control, to organise, to plan and to eliminate risks .
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In modern portfolio theory this is defined as the extent to which the construction of the portfolio has eliminated non-market risk .
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Nevertheless, it will eliminate the risk of misunderstanding if you and your employer discuss retirement specifically.
system
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Of course, no municipal system succeeds in totally eliminating the use of force.
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More important, no changes are made in the system to eliminate the possibility of another pilot making the same error.
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This system also eliminates the need for expensive electronic amplifiers.
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At that time, the quota system would have been eliminated .
tax
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A flat tax , which eliminated tax on investment income, might.
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A flat tax , he wrote in December 1994, would eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividends, interest and estates.
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By eliminating import taxes , or tariffs, and other import restrictions at national borders.
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Forbes' platform makes sense in a state on a mission to eliminate the income tax and substantially reduce the property tax.
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It would eliminate some of the tax subsidies that benefit corporations.
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First, they want to eliminate taxes entirely for people fortunate enough to inherit estates of $ 1 million.
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Two years ago the state also eliminated the tax credit cap on research and development.
use
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In energy terms, the goal of the autonomous house is to eliminate fossil-fuel use and the associated carbon dioxide emissions.
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Congress eliminated the use of supervisory goodwill and capital credits.
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Of course, no municipal system succeeds in totally eliminating the use of force.
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Projects covered by the deal include effluent treatment works and gas supplies to eliminate the use of brown coal.
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Others have all-in-one hook gliders which clip on to the face of the track and eliminate the use of separate curtain hooks.
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This need to eliminate the use of nonrenewable fuels follows for two reasons.
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Contextual logic may help to eliminate unwanted uses of homographs. 3.
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design
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Manufacturers, therefore, are being urged to design processes to eliminate direct operator contact.
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Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle, to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition.
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Medical experiments must, if possible, be designed to eliminate psychological biases in patient and physician.
help
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It would also have helped to eliminate contradictions between authors such as the use of incorrect units.
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The proposed move could help eliminate a lot of excess beds.
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The reduction of fat in the diet helps to eliminate the fat on the body.
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They are designed to stimulate the circulation which in turn helps to eliminate the toxins and fatty particles.
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The Convention has been instrumental in helping to eliminate the dumping of industrialized countries' hazardous wastes on developing countries.
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Contextual logic may help to eliminate unwanted uses of homographs. 3.
reduce
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The two reasons for using simulation methods in pilot training are to reduce costs and to eliminate hazards.
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The Dole plan is vague as to what programs would be reduced or eliminated to pay for the tax reductions.
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There are several general measures that can be taken to reduce or eliminate the problem altogether.
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The use of mixes reduces active time by eliminating almost all measuring time and almost all mixing time.
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Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people.
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But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits.
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And its innovative user interface features reduce or eliminate the number of steps needed to perform standard spreadsheet operations.
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The intended result of such treatment is to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption by producing a negative response to alcohol.
seek
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To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers.
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Should one seek the causes, eliminate them and so prevent the disease?
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What follows is that Toyota, Nissan and the others will seek to eliminate the weaknesses in their overseas production.
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Why else should he be seeking to eliminate her past to his own advantage?
try
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To try to eliminate this way of thinking is difficult; but we must begin.
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They must deal creatively with uncertainty instead of futilely trying to eliminate it.
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If there is no improvement, then you should try eliminating all the other suspect foods that you have listed.
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Dan Miller, R-Fla., have indicated they will try to eliminate the sugar program.
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We would suggest you try a mains filter before getting involved with trying to eliminate radiated r.f.i.
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They tried to eliminate all super-natural explanations from their theories of the earth.
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Injury center spokeswoman Mary Ann Fenley said the center is not trying to eliminate guns but to make them safer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Advances in medical science have eliminated the need for many patients to spend long periods of time in hospital.
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The car maker said it will eliminate 74,000 jobs over the next four years.
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The Colts were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
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The dictator eliminated anyone who might be a threat to him.
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Traffic police intend to eliminate congestion caused by illegally parked vehicles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Having to live with big risks that can not be eliminated makes living with the little risks of life seem natural.
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He supposes that technological process will eliminate the problem of scarcity of resources.
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His scheme involves eliminating 100,000 parking places and installing 15,000 parking-meters.
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The parents were able to eliminate the intimidating outbursts almost entirely.