Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent-a-suit scheme originated a few years ago in Great Britain, where companies have mastered the art of executive perquisites because exorbitantly high tax rates wipe out almost all benefits of high salaries. Now an old-line Baltimore suit manufacturer, Haas Tailoring Co., is using the idea, and President Irving Neuman is besieged with telephone calls from prospective customers. Says he: "Business is growing like Topsy...
Triple-winner David Lundberg's long-awaited rematch with Princeton ace John Christensen was a wipe-out. Christensen opened a slight lead in the first 50, but Lundberg caught him at the third turn and left the defending champion in his wake, churning home...
...carrying on the war against the Ethiopians and their Cuban and Soviet allies. "This is a town of warriors," said a grim-faced herdsman who, like almost every other man in town, had an AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder. "If I had the power, I would wipe the Ethiopians off the face of the earth...
...regular keeps him in the air and on the road some eight months a year. Accustomed to long periods of time on her own, Jean Rather paints (several of her oils hang in the apartment), goes gallery and museum hopping and plays a fierce game of tennis (she can wipe her husband off the court...
...that spurred the U.S. civil rights movement 24 years ago. Who should know better than Rosa Parks, 64. In December 1955 Parks was a tired Montgomery, Ala., domestic who refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man. Her arrest spurred black civil disobedience that helped wipe out segregation laws. Honored last week with a Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, Parks joined hands with Coretta Scott King and former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young for an emotional prayer service. Then to set the record straight, she explained that she was already active in civil rights...