Word: wipe
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...negative effects of having more than one alcoholic drink per day may wipe out any benefits to the heart, says a new report. The 11-year study showed that any decreased risk of men dying from heart disease was offset by an increase in deaths from cancer...
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Shirley and Earl McNall knew they had one hot little entrepreneur on their hands. Son Bruce was only five, and he could wipe everybody out at the Monopoly board, building hotels on all the expensive properties, leaving his mom stewing with an empty lot, say, on low-rent Baltic Avenue. Dazzled, the mother, a lab technician, and the father, a biochemistry professor at the University of Southern California, rationed Bruce's television watching and showered him with intellectual goodies...
Shapiro's plan, says Rivlin, "would make life better for the average citizen by taking on the special interests and eliminating tax loopholes and spending giveaways that favor the few while hurting growth." Shapiro has identified 65 such preferences. "Wipe them out entirely," he says, "and you save $225 billion over five years." Among the programs Shapiro would gut are those that defray airlines' costs to expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams...
...months, the United Nations plans to give $555 million. The U.S. is setting up a jobs program that in theory will put 50,000 Haitians to work by 1995. And the U.S. AID has set aside $140 million for jobs and small loans. Together those packages should help wipe out most of Haiti's debts to international lending institutions, allowing new loans to flow...