Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front cover does not give as many hints to the record's content as the back cover. But it can make some good reading while you're mellowing out to Little Creatures, and it just might slow up the realization that these tunes probably are not dry enough to wipe wet dishes...
...Women and children and settlers are just cannon fodder for lawyers and bankers," McCrae said. "They're part of the scheme. After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way. If they keep coming back then the Army takes over and chouses them worse. Finally the Army will manage to whip 'em down to where they can be squeezed onto some reservation, so the lawyers and bankers can come in and get civilization started. Every bank in Texas ought to pay us a commission...
...million in 1984, its first profit in four years, partly the result of cutbacks in its jet fleet and work force. TWA remains the No. 1 carrier on transatlantic routes, which are highly profitable. But losses on domestic flights, where cut-rate fares are common, threaten to wipe out the gains made on the overseas front...
...Social Security recipients were to get their full COLAs, the Senators quickly decided, veterans and retired government employees should also be entitled to theirs. Again Dole introduced this further emasculation of deficit reduction, and it passed easily, 80 to 18. The net effect of restoring all COLAs was to wipe out a projected saving of $34 billion over three years...
...Star Wars system, he just might be doing us all a favor should one day Russia and the United States find themselves deep in crisis. It's not pleasant to think that force stand on a hair-trigger, but in an age of precision technology, when one side can wipe out the other's command systems in a matter of minutes, that's just reality. Anything that minutes this reality less painful on the "day of reckoning" should be welcomed