Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these; two of the recipients were subsequently shot, he says, and four got life sentences.) To impress the officials, Qiu Ju gives them fruit and buys an ill-fitting striped jacket that unfortunately makes her look even more like a hick chick from the sticks. All to wipe that smirk off the village chief's face -- and to save hers...
IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF NEXT YEAR'S WINter were 100 degrees colder than normal or the summer 150 degrees warmer. Such swings would wipe out animals and plants; in fact, if Earth's climate were that irregular, life might never have arisen. But the seasons are relatively stable because Earth's axis of rotation stays at a constant 23 degrees tilt from the vertical. In July, for example, the sunward-leaning northern hemisphere experiences summer while the southern hemisphere, angled away from the sun, has winter. Six months later, the opposite is true...
...Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...
Opposition will be bitter. Truckers and other big fuel users are claiming that energy taxes depress the economy and wipe out jobs. They have been joined by the very liberal Citizens for Tax Justice, which complains that energy taxes would hurt the poor and middle class. The Administration would probably try to give back some of the money to the poor in the form of a higher earned- income tax credit or some similar device. The Administration's essential argument is that it needs the money, and this is one way to raise it that also promotes energy conservation...
...would love to pursue a singing career, but I really don't know," Thompson says. "I'm not going to wipe tables in New York for two years and do it that way. I'm not trying to seek a recording contract...