Word: wipe
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...also said he recognized legitimate fearsthat the Clinton plan could "wipe out privatepractice medicine" and that doctors could become"employees of insurance companies...
There is a lesson for the U.S. too: no globocop, however powerful, can step in to wipe out the hatreds that have made Bosnia, Somalia, Liberia, Kashmir, the Caucasus run with blood. U.S. power can be brought to bear successfully in conflicts like the Gulf War that are not principally about hate but about aggression, power, territorial acquisition -- the old game of nation states. The U.S. can cajole and encourage accommodation in lots of political, diplomatic, even military ways, but it cannot fundamentally change the minds of people determined to make their hatred for each other the reason for living...
...they figured the economic boom would keep income and salaries growing faster than the debt. Now that growth has slowed, the mentality has changed completely. The Clinton Administration is increasing taxes to fight the deficit, and consumers and corporations are frantically digging out of debt. "I encourage people to wipe the 1980s from their minds from the point of view of investment strategy, because the hyperinflation and high interest rates are gone," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for Economic Advisors, a consulting firm. Today's investment climate looks more like the 1950s and '60s, Sinai says, when inflation and interest...
...neither side in the great forest debate was pleased. A shocked logging industry claimed that the plan would wipe out 85,000 jobs and devastate timber-dependent towns. "The program is dead on arrival," fumed mill owner John Hampton, chairman of the Northwest Forest Resource Council. And while protesting loggers in the Northwest tossed empty caskets on a flaming pyre and sent a funeral wreath to the White House, House Speaker Tom Foley of Washington State was smoldering...
Charleston's best argument still is the closure's potential economic impact. Four other naval facilities in the city are also on the list and closing them all would, supporters claim, wipe out 27% of the area's jobs and 1 of every 3 payroll dollars in the region. In a gust of rhetoric that would make a soap- opera writer blush, Mayor Joe Riley Jr. says the city could begin to die "and the tumbleweeds of broken dreams and shattered lives blow down the street...