Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California families are voluntarily bathing in six gallons of water or less, then using it to water plants or wipe off dirty windows. Some are changing sheets only once every ten days to reduce the need for laundry water. A few zealots are giving up ice cubes in their drinks to save on water and on the electricity used to manufacture ice. The wife of one Department of Agriculture specialist even uses...
...solution of the youth crime problem does not depend only on an improved judiciary system and better legislation. To wipe out crime a whole set of economic, social, cultural, educational and legal problems have to be solved. Higher living standards unaccompanied by provision for better education will have little effect...
...British and American paratroopers in Holland, behind the German lines in the fall of 1944, and ask them to seize and hold six bridges leading to Germany proper until ground forces could get to them, a distance of 64 miles. Together the forces could then smash into the Ruhr, wipe out what was left of the enemy's war production, and everybody would be home for Christmas...
...being a pilot a cushy job: he sits at a TV console 200 miles away and gets the RPV to provide surveillance or relay radio messages or pinpoint targets for precision bombing. An RPV can point out a tank with a laser beam, and artillery on the ground can wipe out the tank with a guided missile that homes in on the beam. How about that...
...around sharply enough to enhance Schmücker's growing reputation as the Herr Fix-It of German industry. Two weeks ago, Schmücker, 56, reported that in 1976 the company had cleared a profit of $425 million, which, with tax credits, is more than enough to wipe out its losses of the previous two years, and that it is resuming dividend payments, which were suspended after 1973. And last week Schmücker journeyed to Pennsylvania to check on the development of a new plant that will begin turning out the Rabbit early next year-making Volkswagen...