Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasury Secretary William Simon last year made the most drastic tax-reform proposal of all. He would "wipe the slate clean of personal tax preferences, special deductions and credits, exclusions from income and the like." By his reckoning, the Government could then slash tax rates by almost a third with no loss of revenue...
...Assistance Administration, South Dakota farmers and ranchers stand to receive about $3 million in hay and transportation subsidies. But federal funds can do little to offset the deeper impact of the drought. According to the University of South Dakota's Business Research Bureau, the cash-crop losses could wipe out 47,500 jobs during the next year, as farms and related businesses lose sales or cut back services. If that happens, the state's unemployment rate could jump from 4.7% now to nearly 20%. Local schools may suffer, since they rely heavily on cattle head taxes for income...
...held talks with as yet unnamed Lebanese leaders. Out of these negotiations has come a secret but potentially decisive Israeli intervention in the 17-month-old Lebanese civil war. Acting with the agreement of Lebanon's Christian leadership and a moderate group of Moslems, Israel is moving to wipe out forever the Palestinian guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon. As Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said last week, "A situation will be created in which we will not permit any faction to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to act against Israel from Lebanese regions close to the border...
...Gulag, the desire of man to kill, maim and torture [Aug. 16] would have been satisfied. Obviously not. The truth has displayed the most horrifying fact of our civilization. Man is still a prisoner of the warped instincts of his mind. No triumph of medicine, culture or knowledge can wipe out that reality...
...crying. His left hand shot up to wipe the tears away and he stood for a long moment, head bowed, unable to go on. He did not turn away from the crowd. Seated on the platform behind him, his mother, Bina Dole, his 21-year-old daughter Robin, Governor Robert Bennett and Ford stirred uncomfortably. Then Dole's old friends out front in the street began to clap. The President and the others rose to their feet, applauding. Slowly Dole regained his composure and went on, never alluding to the incident...