Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Melvin Laird has acknowledged privately, the Communists' thinned-out ranks suddenly lowered the risk of American casualties in border raids. His clear implication was that the U.S. was not moving against any major new enemy threat, but had simply seized a golden-and perhaps temporary-opportunity to wipe out a persistent problem: the enemy positions and stockpiles in Cambodia that constantly menaced the city of Saigon, which is only 35 miles from the border...
...become economic liabilities, the computer will make a decision to wipe us out because we're not needed. Seeing ourselves as economic entities, we become one of the most potentially potent forces relative to the American economy. We are the margin of profit of every major item produced in America from General Motors cars down to Kellogg's Corn Fakes. We have the power to cut their margin of profit, which is their very reason for being...
...scene is slightly exotic-the imaginary South American republic of Camaguay-but the war is of a kind that is becoming all too familiar. American forces are aiding a local dictator in trying to wipe out a terrorizing Communist guerrilla army. What the book amounts to is an intimate, aghast report by an invisible correspondent attached to a mixed patrol of Americans and somewhat loyalist Camaguayans delivering supplies to an isolated camp...
...staffers, one of the police said as they left. "We played with you last night; we'll play again. If you get twenty people, we'll get thirty. If you get fifty, we'll get sixty. And if you want guns, we'll use guns. Only we'll wipe...
...July. The 725,000 postal workers will get another 8% whenever they, the Administration and Congress can agree on Post Office reorganization. The deal will cost the nation $1.2 billion in the current fiscal year, ending June 30, and $2.5 billion in fiscal 1971. Such expenditures would surely wipe out this year's anticipated budget surplus. To pay for the postal raises, the President asked Congress to increase first-class mail rates from 6? to 10? and to boost second-class and bulk third-class mail and parcel-post rates by 5% to 15%. In addition, he called...