And then, in the later rounds, they are voted on and eliminated like singers on any old competition show.
You could argue that Bremen's season suffered from too many matches after being eliminated, like Donetsk, from the Champions League.
"This is not a country where one can express such a wish without fear of being eliminated like my brother".
Mr. Best hopes other school systems will be inspired by the model, in which some of the expenses that typically burden charities can be eliminated, like evaluating programs.
The department said most of the questions to be eliminated, like one regarding untaxed income earned by members of the clergy, would affect few applications.
"Now there's some programs that I just don't like, which will be easy to eliminate, like Obamacare," he said, to applause, citing a savings of roughly $90 billion.
Chinese carmakers tended to sift through a foreign vehicle to identify expensive but noncritical features and functions that they could skimp on or eliminate, like power windows or doors that close with a solid thump.
Mr. Steel said that only "a very, very small number" of productions in the house would ever be revived and that other productions that are eliminated — like the "Don Giovanni" in Portland — could be reconstructed at a lower cost.
Some of the work's best-known speeches have been eliminated (like Polonius's "Neither a borrower nor a lender be") or repositioned (like "To be or not to be").
Procrastination can also be reduced when temptations are decreased or eliminated, like moving an e-mail icon to make it less visible, turning off an alert beep or delaying e-mail access, Professor Steel said.
