Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since launching Operation Hurricane in December 1972 to wipe out the guerrillas, the Rhodesian government says it has killed 786 rebels while losing 89 of its own troops. But the Zimbabwe forces, beefed up after three years of low-level and largely ineffective insurgency in northeastern Rhodesia, now have an estimated 10,000 fighters in Mozambique and Tanzania...
...right in 1972 to lead insurgencies against Hubert, Ed, Scoop and the entire army of crooked-bicycle-parkers that campaigned in Florida. But Jimmy Carter, the Cheshire cat media mirage says he has only been to Washington to get on the tour bus and wants to wipe out the bureaucrats as badly as Wallace...
...powerful strategic deterrent. A head start in developing launchers with multiple, independently targetable warheads (MlRVs), combined with the striking power of the B-52 bombers, gives the U.S. a 9,000 v. 3,200 advantage in deliverable nuclear bombs and warheads. Soviet improvements of nuclear delivery systems could wipe out the American advantage. Reason: the very powerful Soviet rockets, especially the SS-9, SS-18 and SS-19, are capable of launching more individual warheads than can the relatively lightweight U.S. Minuteman III missiles...
That margin was particularly painful in light of the frustrating events of the final period, which saw the Crimson explode dramatically in the early minutes, to wipe out a B.U. lead and assume command of the game...
...share of the movie's cost; 3) most important, he can take a depreciation write-off on the whole $100,000-80% of it in the first 18 months. For $25,000 in cash, the investor can get write-offs that in the first year virtually wipe out the taxes on $75,000 to $100,000 of his nonmovie income...