Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that Ivy meets will have to be put off until next year when the team will be in better shape. "We'd like to play Princeton, but Princeton recruits," he said. "They would probably wipe us right off the track...
...unrestricted income--will rise $340 next year, from the current $3400 to $3740. Rents will increase by $150, going from $950 to $1100, while board payments will rise by $90, to $1090 from this year's $1000. Rosovsky's present projections indicate that the increases in rents will wipe out this year's probably $500,000 deficit in the College and graduate student housing budget, and that the board increase will help to balance the food services budget...
...risk remains that Ford's proposals would cause enough new price rises to wipe out all the benefits of his proposed tax cuts, leaving consumers with no more buying power than before, or even less. To be sure, the pace of price increases finally seems...
According to Winterbotham, Ultra's successes justified even Coventry. Tip-offs of enemy intent affected almost every phase of the war. During the Battle of Britain, Ultra's eavesdropping on Goring's scheme for using his 3-to-1 superiority in planes to "wipe the British Air Force from the sky" helped the R. A.F. deploy and husband its forces until the Luftwaffe, crippled too, abandoned the attempt. It was Ultra and not General Montgomery's much celebrated "intuition" that told when Rommel would strike at El Alamein, the turning point for the British...
...closed and more than 200,000 auto production workers, clerks and executives will be out of jobs during part or all of December. Oil companies grappled with new uncertainties about their future as the House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax bill that fairly soon is likely to wipe out the celebrated depletion allowance. Prospects for a quick end to the nationwide coal strike darkened as mine-union leaders raised new objections to a proposed contract that provides well over a 50% raise in wages and benefits over three years. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average worried...