Word: wipe
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...Iraq's Kurds suspect that the real aim of the Turkish military incursion is not so much to wipe out the PKK, as it is to harass the Kurdish region that is increasingly behaving as a state in the making. Turkey has long been hostile to the very idea of an autonomous - let alone independent - Kurdistan, which they fear would incite secessionist feelings among Turkey's own Kurdish minority. At the same time, Iraq's Kurdish leaders have been unwilling to move against the PKK, having tried and failed to defeat them during the 1990s. Instead, they have urged Turkey...
...Djamena is over." Echoing accusations voiced by other African regimes that the Chadian anti-government fighters are financed and trained by Khartoum, Allam-Mi warned that "if it's necessary for the security, defense, and integrity of Chad, we'll go all the way to Sudan" to wipe them...
...surgery?or, to be more exact, to deplete the immune system's T cells, which normally patrol the body looking for foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses and tissues from outside donors. Several days before the transplant surgery, Sachs' team used drugs that target and eliminate these cells to wipe the immune slate clean. Then the team transplanted the kidney along with donor bone-marrow cells. What happened next was surprising: the bone marrow rebuilt the immune system but this time as a chimera?a hybrid of both the donated organ's cells and the body's own. The donated organ...
...emirs who rule the small oil-rich states situated just across the Gulf from the Persian giant. They are inclined to agree with Bush's worries about Iran's nuclear intentions. But they are even more concerned about another U.S. war in the Gulf - this time against Iran, to wipe out its nuclear program. That could bring a swift backlash, either through direct Iranian military retaliation against Washington's regional allies, or in the form of fomenting long-term political unrest and terrorism among Shi'ite minorities in those countries. Arabs were relieved when the recent National Intelligence Estimate...
...beyond all that, the groundswell under the wave, is a hunger for something new. In interviews and focus groups all over the state, voters-especially Democrats-expressed this appetite. "It's not about change," said pollster Frank Luntz. "It's about a new beginning. Democrats want to wipe the slate clean...