Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest hit was Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., the seventh largest American commercial bank, which had made about $1 billion worth of loans in cooperation with Penn Square. Losses on the loans are now expected to wipe out Continental Illinois' anticipated $59 million profit for the current quarter...
...with me?" Young Henry Fonda looks up at the suddenly dark window of the apartment in which he believes his wife Margaret Sullavan to be consorting with Producer Jed Harris: "More nights than I care to remember I'd stand there and cry, and then wipe away my tears so that I wouldn't look like a wino on the subway riding uptown. I'd go back to that flea-bitten hotel room and I'd sit in the dark...
...undo the federal tax benefit." Adds Robert Rossana, an economics professor at Pennsylvania State University: "The net benefit of the federal tax cut will be very small for the large majority of U.S. taxpayers. It would take only a little bit of action by state and local bodies to wipe...
...have an authentic aversion to the subject and generally says nothing. The way black Promoter Don King and Holmes talk, Cooney is just the same traditional white emissary who has been sent against the black savage since James J. Jeffries hurried out of retirement in 1910 to try to wipe the grin off the face of Jack Johnson. Rocky Marciano, who retired undefeated the year Cooney was born, was the last white American to wear the heavyweight crown. When Swede Ingemar Johansson shook Floyd Patterson loose from the title momentarily in 1959, Ingemar had one wonderful year to enjoy...
...enthusiasm of the planners has not allayed widespread fears. The project's opponents say it would wipe out great expanses of forest lands and close off such historic ports as Arkhangelsk. In addition, the diversions would flood northern agricultural lands, temporarily halt river traffic and, by denying salmon and other river-breeding species their fresh-water spawning grounds, wreck flourishing fisheries. Severe problems may also come from the thick ice expected to remain well past winter in the new reservoirs. By retarding the spring thaw, the freeze-up could cut the already brief northern growing season by two weeks...