Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After last month's big quakes, Los Angeles wine connoisseur Dennis Overstreet realized that the next one might demolish his cellars. Party! Two dozen friends helped him consume a six-liter 1982 Chateau Petrus (value: $9,000). Says he: "And we didn't have to drink it from a sponge...
...humor indoors at the official proceedings last week, as the Republican Platform Committee staged its hearing on social questions. Since 1980 the platform has taken a hard line against abortion and promoted the appointment of jurists who back that view. Now, with the Supreme Court poised to undermine or demolish Roe v. Wade, many Republicans want the party to moderate its stance. Stone, a direct-mail entrepreneur who has raised millions for conservative causes, is collecting money for pro-choice candidates...
...city will demolish the old school in September of this year, before the completion of the new Haggerty School by the end of September...
...claims to "demolish the repulsive propaganda accusation that during World War II Germans stewed the bodies of exterminated Jews to manufacture soap from them." It calls the assertion a hoax perpetuated by the U.S. and Soviet governments, the Nuremberg court and prominent Jewish groups...
...countries of the northern tier, the biggest problem is time. Many analysts point out that the capitalist economies of the West grew organically over centuries. It was totally unrealistic for anyone to expect that Eastern Europe could demolish the communist system and build free-market democracies in two -- or even 10 -- years. Yet many people in Eastern Europe thought that by getting rid of the stagnant and oppressive communist system, they could enjoy Western prosperity overnight, and their governments failed to disabuse them of that idea...