Word: wipe
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...democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and involvement in politics. Above all, shall we remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always hanging over the peninsula like the sword of Damocles...
...adult turns out to be not the radiant and innocent child Jean-Jacques Rousseau imagined but rather a hard, half-blind, furiously offended, rancorous, enraged infant capable of any atrocity. As the late Austrian child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein noted, the thwarted infant feels a desire to tear up everything, wipe out both parents...
...loan McDougal had got for her to finance the model home. Eventually Bill Clinton himself borrowed over $20,000 from the Security Bank of Paragould, whose former president, Marlin Jackson, was Clinton's bank commissioner, and applied the proceeds to reduce Hillary's debt. (That amount, however, did not wipe out her debt entirely. It isn't clear who paid off the several thousand dollars remaining, but Madison Bank retired the loan.) Jackson was aware of McDougal's questionable activities, and had warned Clinton that McDougal might be running afoul of the state's banking laws. But Clinton apparently ignored...
Take Forbes' make-believe on the deficit. Forbes' tax cuts would blow an estimated $140 billion hole in the budget; the spending cuts that he says would offset the cuts are vague blather. He wouldn't cut defense. He says he would 'wipe out' corporate welfare but offers no specifics, saying between campaign stops only that 'a lot can be done with agriculture subsidies." Forbes says he'll "strip" the departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development of "all but essential functions." Sounds tough. But it's a knock-off of the G.O.P.'s box-shuffling plan...
...when a majority of voters in both parties say they want a balanced budget before new tax cuts. Forbes, a believer in the quasi-theology called supply-side economics, assumes that tax cuts, even when financed by federal borrowing, will generate so much economic growth that they will quickly wipe out the deficit. He paints a vision of wealthy investors shifting their money out of T-bills and into new factories and inventions. It may not have worked that way in the 1980s, when top tax rates were slashed and the deficit soared, but that's the reason supply-siders...