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...hailed the plant as a "noble experiment," and local businessmen foresee an economic boom. But the men on Hilton Head expect a pall of fumes and a flood of fouled water. Fighting mad, they have forged an alliance with fishermen and resort owners, who are equally worried-pollution could wipe out their livelihood. They argue that tourism alone will provide 40% of the county's income this year and that it is senseless to jeopardize an already thriving industry...
...paucity of parking space is another burden. Expanding the Stadium would wipe out the University's meager lot next to Briggs Cage, and the only other available space is either the banks of the river or the playing grounds of Soldiers Field, neither of which has adequate accessibility for entrance and exit purposes...
...were virtually unknown in Libya before the September coup. Gaddafi, for example, was a poor boy who grew up in a tent. Now, while Arab boys hawk his pictures in Tripoli's Ninth of August Square (named for Libya's Army Day), Gaddafi leads a campaign to wipe out the graft and privilege that depressed the country during the monarchy. About 600 ranking officers, politicians, civil servants and wealthy businessmen have been jailed. The 25,000 Italians, 7,000 Americans and 5,000 Britons, who previously enjoyed special status in a backward Arab society, are uncertain about their...
After the confirmation of his ouster, which was reportedly approved by the Politburo, Solzhenitsyn sent an open letter to the union in Moscow. "Wipe the dust off your watches," he wrote...
...deliverable megatonnage, but whether that is an advantage is debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe out U.S. offensive ICBMs in a surprise first strike. Yet the very number and variety of American nuclear weapons, combined with their wide dispersal, makes any such attack extremely difficult...