Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the stock-market crash, the press plays taps. The Wall Street Journal declares, "Yuppies have become a bore and . . . Madison Avenue is trying to wipe them...
...Concord State, they stamp your hand so they can identify you, and so you can get out after the game," Caulfield said. "The whole time I was playing I was hoping my sweat wouldn't wipe...
...from Moscow offered much cause for optimism. Gorbachev's decree on economic crime gave security squads the right to raid government enterprises, cooperatives, private businesses and even joint ventures involving foreign firms, and to carry out audits of their wares, cash holdings and accounts. The crackdown is supposed to wipe out the black market, but it may well trample underfoot the first fragile growth of free enterprise. Said Deputy of the Russian parliament Artyom Tarasov, a new Soviet entrepreneur: "This is no longer the politics of the free market but the politics of discipline...
...that it would be unwise to liquidate the country's military altogether. "If Iraq is totally out of the picture," says William Quandt, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution, "there is no counterbalance to Iran." At the same time, the U.S. and its allies are determined to wipe out Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and seriously impair its conventional war machine. Reconciling those two aims requires a delicate balancing act. "You want an Iraq weak enough that it can't threaten the weakest of its neighbors, yet strong enough to deter the strongest of its neighbors," says...
...purely hawkish chords were audible too, of course. "We have to go in there and do tremendous damage," said Chicago dentist Jerald Schwab. "We have to wipe out the military capability of Saddam Hussein permanently and totally. If we don't go to war, we are going to have much greater problems in the future." In Jacksonville an insurance agent by the name of George Bush, who is no relation to the President, said, "We have no other alternative but to go in before Saddam Hussein makes it worse. This maniac only answers at the point...