Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret talks in Paris failed to take place last November 20 for essentially three reasons: the presence of five U.S. aircraft carriers off the Vietnamese coast, the extensive civilian relocation in the northern part of South Vietnam, and the acceleration of Salgon's Phoenix program to wipe out communist sympathizers and political dissidents...
...voted to bill Harvard $25,000 for special police details during the SDS convention earlier this month. "I don't know if they requested the police or not," said Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci. "If we let Harvard get away without paying this bill, the $25,000 could just about wipe out any money the city gets under Harvard's plan for the Continental Hotel...
...early 1970, causing many farmers to overorder new laying hens. Since high prices meant high profits, many outside investors-looking for the tax advantages that farming can offer-put their money into eggs. Early last year a new vaccine was swiftly eliminating Mareks disease, an affliction that used to wipe out 15% to 20% of the nation's hens every year. Besides, per capita egg consumption has remained virtually static at little more than 300 per person a year...
...word amnesty comes from the Greek root amnestia, which means to forget, overlook, or become oblivious to. Amnesia has the same root. Amnesty does not mean to ask forgiveness--but to wipe the slate clean. To demand this is to ask the government to admit to the American public that its Asia policy was wrong and that those who have opposed it were right...
...taxes have been cut four times, from a range of 20% to 91%, to the present 14% to 50%. If rates, exemptions and deductions had been held steady for the past decade, Washington today would be collecting at least an additional $40 billion a year?more than enough to wipe out the $38.8 billion deficit foreseen in this fiscal year. Alternatively, if a large deficit were considered necessary to stimulate the economy, Washington could now be distributing enough additional aid to states and cities to meet nearly all the social spending needs expected for the 1970s...