Word: wipe
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...airline's troubles aren't over. Despite increasing revenue and posting a modest $30 million profit in March, the airline is still losing money because of rising fuel prices. Huge pension costs, soft business travel and competition from low-cost carriers like Southwest and JetBlue could still wipe out the airline's mini-recovery...
...were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America...
...hell-bent on eliminating the U.S. as a viable country? Hamas may provide social services for average Palestinians?who have gone without such help because of corruption in the Palestinian Authority?but for Israelis, Hamas is as bad as the Nazis were for Jews. The Palestinians just want to wipe us off the face of the earth. In my view, every possible initiative against Hamas, including execution, is acceptable. Mike Druttman Hod Hasharon, Israel...
MAKE AN EXTRA MORTGAGE PAYMENT. If you have a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and you make an extra principal payment each year, you will reduce the term of that loan to 23 years. That's right: you can wipe out seven years of interest payments. If the cost of refinancing your mortgage stopped you from undertaking that transaction in the past, keep in mind that using your refund to refinance can save you additional money in the long...
...mere 200 years and change ago by a bunch of people who figured they'd start afresh on a brand-new, spotless continent. Maybe that's why we think we can go overseas and build brand-new nations from scratch--hey, that's how we did it, right? Wipe the slate clean and reprogram the patient? But as Joel discovers in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it's not quite that simple: however much you wipe and wipe that slate--out, damned spot!--something, some mysterious, unerasable palimpsest, remains behind...