Word: clobbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thanks to the steady decline in mortgage rates, his business is growing rapidly. The company has nearly doubled its work force since 1986, while reinvesting roughly two-thirds of profits in new equipment and office space. But Goodrich worries a lot. His fear: a deficit-reduction package that will clobber many small firms like his. "This is a job-creating company that the government should help, not penalize," he complains. "I'd rather have Bush's recession than Clinton's tax increases...
...jump in interest rates would also clobber the bond market, to which mutual-fund buyers have flocked as well. Bonds took off on a powerful rally last November that has pushed long-term yields to their lowest level in 20 years (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). A spurt in interest rates would have the opposite effect, halting the boom and sending bond prices spiraling down...
...nays appear to have it. William O'Keefe, executive vice-president of the American Petroleum Institute, the voice of the U.S. oil giants, calls a new gasoline tax the worst choice of the lot because it could clobber regions where people drive long miles and would be "extremely regressive." The American Trucking Associations has sent out bulletins to 35,000 trucking companies to begin mobilizing for battle. "We're loading guns," spokesman John Doyle told the Wall Street Journal. The threat of a tax hike worries individuals like Rebecca Harrison, who owns a Los Angeles flooring company with four trucks...
...help bridge that gap, Tsongas would use government funds to assist companies in turning their ideas into lucrative products. That could halt an embarrassing trend in which Japanese firms have frequently adopted U.S. know- how, such as microchip technology, and then used it to clobber American companies...
...watch the televised daily briefings from the Pentagon and coalition headquarters in Riyadh. Most of Iraq's antiaircraft batteries were made in the U.S.S.R. and manned by personnel trained by Soviet advisers. Yet the coalition's fighter-bombers and cruise missiles achieved perfect surprise, then set about to clobber Iraq with near impunity for six weeks. There was much cursing and gnashing of teeth among the Soviet officers glued to the tube in Moscow...