Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been terrible. Adverse news is one thing, but un certainty at the core of adverse news can create widespread panic." Even if the banks manage to collect something from Drysdale, the anticipated after-tax loss of $135 million that Chase expects to suffer from the affair will probably wipe out the bank's earnings for the second quarter...
...slowed down until joblessness rose too high. Then the Government would start fighting unemployment, until prices again got out of control. The main effect of this on-again, off-again policy over the long run has been both more inflation and more unemployment. Another switch in programs would unfortunately wipe out the recent progress made against inflation without providing any lasting relief against the terrible plague of unemployment. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Barbara B.Dolan/Detroid
...Neill has said he will try to persuade delegates to change their allegiances and also urge the delegates at the convention to wipe out the rule, which they can do by a majority vote...
When Lucas Garcia took office in 1978 political violence which had been widespread in Guatemala for several decades increased dramatically. Moderate politicians were murdered of forced into exile by rightist death squad and thousands of Indian peasants were killed in an effort by Lucas Garcia to wipe out the left's popular base of support. After harsh criticism by the Carter Administration. Guatemala renounced...
...behind the assault plan is Defense Minister Sharon, who is described as the "hawk among hawks" by a top U.S. official. Sharon is determined to wipe out the P.L.O. in Lebanon, reduce its influence in the occupied territories and thereby solve Israel's most serious security problem. In 1978 the Israelis invaded Lebanon with 10,000 men and 200 tanks, but failed to dislodge the P.L.O. This time they have 36,000 men massed in northern Israel...