Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point, our team is the underdog because no one has seen us at our peak this season. Hopefully our time drops will act like a blitzkrieg to wipe out the Tigers...
...like food- and drugmakers). If you own too much stock in the company for which you've worked for decades--a common condition in these days of company stock options and company-stock matches in 401(k) plans--an unexpected setback for that company or its industry could wipe you out. Guy Cambie, a certified financial planner in Austin, Texas, urges investors to divorce themselves from the sentiment of any particular stock. One solution: mutual funds, in which, as Cambie notes, diversification is done...
...have erupted from the Orange County youth-apparel industry to become globally recognized brands--among them, Quiksilver, Oakley, Billabong USA and Stussy. Yet just as many such labels--including Gotcha, Lightning Bolt, Vision Street Wear, Jimmy-Z, Maui & Sons, Mossimo and others--rode huge waves of sales only to wipe out in a few years...
...what did the conflict accomplish? Even U.S. military officials recognized that their campaign could not wipe out Iraq's stores of chemical and biological agents. With U.N. inspectors gone, Saddam might speed development of weapons of mass destruction. No one doubted that when the smoke cleared, we would be asking the same nagging questions: When will Saddam fall? What...
...themselves to sleep over rebuffs, both physical and emotional, suffered at the hands of their peers. Some of the tears--as well as the acts of cruelty that provoke them--are as inevitable and as fleeting as growing pains. And parents want to believe their love can wipe away the rest. But a series of recent books has roiled the waters and caused parents to wonder anew whether they can ward off the ill effects of getting in with "the wrong crowd"--or becoming an outcast...