Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always wipe the bottom of my sneakers with my right hand, then my left," says Sean P. Doyle '85, a varsity volleyball player, adding. "I put everything on right to left." Doyle has been doing this for five years...
...always wipe the bottom of my sneakers with my right hand, then my left," says Sean P. Doyle '85, a varsity volleyball player. "I put everything on right to left." Doyle has been doing this for five years...
...Goetz unburdened himself. While he did not feel he had done anything wrong, Goetz said he had "acted like a cold-blooded savage." Several times he punctuated his account by remarking that all he wanted was privacy and that when he returned to New York, "they were going to wipe the floor with me." When two New York City detectives arrived to interview him, he became hostile. Emerging from the Concord station, Goetz was engulfed by the first of many hordes of reporters. "Vultures," he sneered...
...Scientific Advisory Committee has already stumbled on some of the problems of sweeping chemical restrictions. As Robert A. Alberty of MIT's Department of Chemistry commented, certain of the committee's restrictions would basically wipe out a lot of research in chemistry and biology at institutions like MIT, because the regulation banned "analogue" as well as supertoxic substances. Alberty's suggestion of drawing up a very specific, list of restricted chemicals as opposed to general criteria indicates where we should go from here: comprehensive yet specific regulations. Unfortunately for easy solutions, in the detoxification issue, the risks are often local...
...business has meant smooth sailing for virtually all concerned. But some storm clouds now loom. The Treasury Department's recent tax-reform proposals would eliminate the investment tax credit and remove other breaks that yacht investors use. Says Sail Belize's Gegg: "If the changes are drastic, they could wipe out our industry and many of the boatbuilding companies as well...