Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Undoubtedly, with the wide circulation TIME enjoys among thinking people, the result of your May 27 article, "The Heart at Work & Play," will be to bring an end to the form of play known as propagation ; abruptly end the increase of population upon which our economy is based, and wipe out the glorious future of our beloved country...
...summing-up last week: "While a tax reduction-if the budget were cut by as much as $6 billion-would mean a saving to every taxpayer of about $78, it could be at a cost later of such a weakened defense in a possible war as to wipe out overnight any such saving...
...billion rubles; next year, 18 billion; and in 1967 we would have to pay about 25 billion, or almost as much as the subscriptions to the loan envisaged for the current year. This is a vicious circle." Khrushchev's solution was as Marxist as the circle itself: wipe out the loan and postpone paying back previous loans for 25 years, during which loan holders would get no interest...
...needed to sell, distribute and service the greater outpouring of goods from the more efficient production lines. If all factory employees were counted in, said BLS, it would be necessary to subtract at least 1% from the manufacturing productivity gains in 1954, 1955 and 1956. This would all but wipe out any gain last year...
...basis of current estimates, said Verrier, the 1957 budget will be in the red by $350 million (at the free rate), and a foreign-trade deficit of $250 million is in sight by year's end. This would more than wipe out the nation's $237 million in gold and dollar reserves...