Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some Jesuits began busying themselves in social action and in questioning papal teachings. In 1973 a harried Pope Paul VI wrote Superior General Pedro Arrupe to "express our desire, indeed our demand," that the Jesuits remain loyal to the papacy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II directed Arrupe to wipe out secularism and other "regrettable shortcomings...
...Cause they can't wipe us out for at least five years...
Unlike Social Security, almost no private pension program automatically takes inflation into account in calculating post-retirement benefits, even though price increases can wipe out the value of a pension. An annual inflation rate of 10% will halve the buying power of a retirement check in about seven years. Someone who lives 15 years after retirement at 65, the normal lifespan today, would be receiving a pension worth only about 25% of its original value at the time of his death. Concedes John Balch, vice president and treasurer of the Jewel Companies, a supermarket and drugstore chain: "In most cases...
...less were not getting free or reduced-price meals, partly because local school districts set wildly differing eligibility standards. The nation was dismayed by repeated disclosures of continuing hunger and even starvation in parts of the country. Years of rapid noninflationary economic growth encouraged the belief that America could wipe out all social problems by determined expansion of Government assistance...
...never worked in TV before. But then, he has never faced so special a challenge. In July 1980 Evans pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to agreeing to buy 5 oz. of cocaine for $19,000. Judge Vincent Broderick deferred judgment, offering Evans a chance to wipe his record clean after a year's probation. In return, said Broderick, "I want you to use your unique talents where others have failed in this horrible thing of drug abuse by children...