Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, tax reform appears to offer little to corporate America but a highly uncomfortable new burden. To finance lower tax rates for consumers, the conference committee boosted levies on businesses by $120 billion over the next five years. The new law will wipe out most of the special tax incentives and shelters that industries have lobbied for and protected for decades. Yet surprisingly, most corporate leaders applaud the reform, since they feel that in the long run they will benefit from a more efficient and vibrant, not to mention fairer, economy. Says Robert Silverman, president of Atlanta's Winter...
...legacy of colonialism. The principal problem has been with Somalia, which seeks to expand its frontiers at the expense not only of Ethiopia but of other countries too. My meeting with Somali President Siad Barre last January was undertaken at our initiative. Although one cannot expect to wipe away such long-standing problems in one stroke, the beginning has not been without hope...
...humble town," complains Alvarez, "is becoming internationally known as a cocaine center." Trinidad has, willy- nilly, become home to the U.S. 193rd Infantry Brigade. Transported from Panama two weeks ago, the G.I.s are embarked on an earnest mission: to help the Bolivian drug-enforcement unit, known as the Leopards, wipe out cocaine- processing factories. But "Operation Blast Furnace," which has flooded Trinidad with more than 170 soldiers, a dozen or so agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and representatives from 53 news organizations, has proved as confused an antic as in an Evelyn Waugh novel...
...made it a bit easier for Bolivia to support the raid by promising to wipe out only the cocaine-processing labs, leaving the coca fields undisturbed. Raising coca is legal in Bolivia -- although processing it into cocaine is not -- and the fields produce the nation's only important cash crop. Bolivia's cocaine exports are worth at least $600 million a year, more than a third of its $1.5 billion in total annual exports. The cocaine trade provides a livelihood for up to 400,000 peasants, who have no other means of support...
...Attorney General's initiatives have encountered some stinging rebuffs. Rejecting arguments by the Justice Department, the Supreme Court has, in recent weeks, reiterated its commitment to abortion rights and affirmative action. Political pragmatists in the Administration have thus far thwarted Meese in his efforts to wipe out minority quotas for Government contracts through an Executive Order. Earlier this year when Meese endorsed a plan for random drug-testing of federal employees, a number of top Reagan aides criticized it as an invasion of privacy. And, of course, the methods and findings of the pornography commission have provoked a downpour...