Word: wipe
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Nearly extinct and known to live only in the waters of the Little Tennessee River, the 3-in.-long snail darter is exerting an influence far out of proportion to its size. In June the U.S. Supreme Court stopped construction of the $116 million Tellico Dam because it would wipe out the diminutive fish, thereby violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Now the snail darter is endangering the very law that protected...
...progeny than the spokesman for the civil and political rights of Mississippi blacks. Evers's conservative pabulum is almost what one would expect to hear from a George Wallace or a Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity to wipe out the nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret out the cheaters, etc. When Evers isn't talking like an arch-conservative, he's persuading Mississippians he can better fatten their wallets than any other politician. Evers boasts of his Washington connections and how only he can "bring the bacon...
...would waste the efforts of Arab leaders to try to wipe out the tiny democracy of Israel and take the little territory of the only Jewish homeland in a vast Arab area. Instead, why don't they work with Israel to master the scientific and technological realities of the 20th century and put them to use for their social and economic betterment...
SAFETY. Only a handful of hysterics believe that a conventional nuclear plant could explode in a mushroom cloud and wipe out a city. But many fear less dramatic accidents, including "melt down," which could occur if a reactor lost the water used to control the temperature of its core, ruptured and released radioactive gas and other material. Many also worry about radioactive contamination and fear that those living near nuclear plants may be subject to constant and eventually deadly exposure to radiation...
...they have won have created a bourgeoisie whose members are more concerned about their taxes than about their unions' legislative goals. In California, blue-collar unionized homeowners last June voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 13, in full knowledge that the 57% cut in property taxes that it called for would wipe out the jobs of many of their brother unionists working in local governments...