Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent months, the practice has not only risen to alarming proportions but has emerged as the symptom of a deep-seated economic malaise. Last year the illegal flight of lire rose to $2.25 billion, enough to wipe out the benefits of Italy's overall trade surplus and create a $1.37 billion balance of payments deficit. A winter wave of strikes cost many industries the equivalent of a month's production. The resulting wage increases (average: 15%) have been followed by rising prices...
...must either wipe out hatred, war, fear, injustice, deliberate public lies and the fatuous leaders who utter them, or these evils will wipe...
...vacation, but then you have too much time on your hands, and you begin to worry." The most nagging worry: if Russo is off for six months, he will lose Blue Cross coverage. Money pinch or not, Ray Russo has no plans to look for work because that would wipe out unemployment benefits and supplemental compensation. THE SPACE SPECIALIST. Jose Jimenez (no kin to the Bill Dana comedy character) is a former Navy lieutenant commander who spent the past seven years at North American Rockwell's plant in Downey, Calif., as an Apollo command-module training officer...
...adding just one alien component to a delicate balance, man sometimes triggers a series of dangerous changes. Nature immediately tries to restore the balance?and often overreacts. When farmers wipe out one pest with powerful chemicals, they may soon find their crops afflicted with six pests that are resistant to the chemicals. Worse, the impact of a pesticide like DDT can be vastly magnified in food chains. Thus DDT kills insect-eating birds that normally control the pests that now destroy the farmers' crops. The "domino theory" is clearly applicable to the environment...
...Quakers still were able to wipe out an early two-goal deficit, hang on while substitute goalie John Marks kicked out 57 Harvard shots, and win on the power play in overtime...