Word: wipe
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...Buchanansaid today that the U.S. should eliminate all foreign aid funding and use the money to cut taxes on American small business. Although President Clinton has called aRepublican proposal to reduce foreign aid spendingfrom $12.7 billion to $11.8 billion next year "isolationist," Buchanan is pushing the GOP to wipe out funding entirely. "The isolationist, anti-NAFTA constituency is one of three groups Buchanan is appealing to," says TIME's Laurence Barrett, "the others being the gun control people and the social conservatives. What he is trying to do is become the main alternative to all the mainstream Republican candidates...
...lasers, fighter jets and tanks. No police report has fully explained the March subway gassing and May's thwarted attack on Shinjuku station. Ikuo Hayashi, a doctor who admitted planting gas on one of the Tokyo trains, was quoted in newspapers as saying the goal was to wipe out the Kasumigaseki section of Tokyo, where many government offices are located. "The attack was launched so that the guru's prophecy could come true," Hayashi reportedly told interrogators...
...rammed through resolutions containing all these proposals in the House and Senate Budget Committees. The resolutions are likely to be approved by floor votes in both chambers this week. Moreover, contrary to the conventional wisdom of decades, which held that government spending could never be reined in enough to wipe out deficits because too many citizens would be outraged by losing federal help, many of the G.O.P. ideas stand an excellent chance of actually taking effect...
...Committee, repeatedly proclaims his work to be "a revolution." And for once that overworked clicha might be true. Consider two measures of how many decades of precedent the Republicans intend to reverse. The Senate G.O.P. wants to zero out the Department of Commerce; Kasich's House troops would also wipe out the Departments of Education and Energy. Either move would shrink the number of Cabinet departments for the first time in 48 years...
What is at the heart of this cruelty? The desire to wipe out a people. A calculated strategy to exterminate human beings because of their religious beliefs and supposed racial inferiority. And the world's silence in the face of this strategy. But how does the Holocaust fit into history? Is it a unique event like none that came before it and like none that will come after? Or is it an appalling tragedy whose lessons are not meant merely to be pontificated on but applied? In short, can it be used as an historical analogue...