Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-missiles idea, this time in satellite form, it provoked immediate outcry from those who defend deterrence. In this light, it is easy to understand the alarm felt in American defense circles when it appeared that the Soviet Union had achieved first-strike capability--the ability to attack and wipe out our land-based nuclear forces--seriously eroding the credibility of the American deterrent...
...Bacon about the Colombian gangs: "They're absolutely ruthless, and they've imported their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid out at a party, there might well have been a murder in Miami between rival gangs...
...stop running in a couple of blocks, and quickly take off my black leather jacket and wipe the sweat off my face and make like a pedestrian. I can't see anything and stop some people on the street to ask what street I'm on and which way to the nearest telephone. They point west...
...finish. And it doesn't want to color itself an unchanging gray by landing in jail for two years. The first thing the Weathermen have going against them, the made thing, the after thing, the only thing that can seem really important, is the way their actions wipe out the self. It Springs them down on you. Even if they are now slowly dating you away by the way they make you live, that seems better than being destroyed suddenly and totally...
...bankers, the greatest danger is that a surge in the cost of money used to fund credit-card loans will wipe out profit margins. That happened in 1981, when banks were paying close to 18% for money, and retailers sometimes more than 20%. At the time, usury laws in nearly half the states set credit-card interest ceilings of 12% for balances of more than a few hundred dollars. Partly for that reason, Sears, Roebuck lost $83 million on its credit-card sales in 1981, while the Carter Hawley Hale chain of department stores dropped $74 million...