Word: scrapping
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Ideally, Congress should scrap the entire unwieldy tax code and start over with a law almost free of exemptions and .with rates as much as one-third lower than those now in force. "Short of a whole new law, Congress might quell much of today's uproar by closing some of the more flagrant routes to tax avoidance, which deprive Treasury of $50 billion a year in potential revenue...
...just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous bug and turn it into scrap...
Under the headline "Four Professors Cancel Lectures in Protest of 'Misuse of Science,'" you reported on 28 February that I am one of "four Harvard scientists who have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4," and would replace the "regular technical material next Tuesday with discussions of the relationship of science to society...
Four Harvard scientists have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4 in sympathy with a nationwide research stoppage protesting the misuse of science...
...issue was made even more confusing by a Navy intelligence expert, Captain John H. D. Williams. He maintained that every scrap of classified paper on Pueblo, all 2,000 pounds of it, could and should have been destroyed. Williams said that the entire crew should have been released from general quarters to carry the material into one nonessential compartment. There it could have been doused in gasoline and burned. An icy, self-assured officer, Williams made it clear that in his opinion Bucher and Harris had all the destruction equipment they needed. All that was missing was the ingenuity...