Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would close some of its plants, eliminate 27,400 jobs and take a $3.2 billion write-off against its fourth-quarter earnings, the sheer magnitude of the reductions was stunning. The job cuts alone were the largest in the firm's history, and the write- off will all but wipe out 1986 after-tax earnings, which had been expected to approach $2 billion. While one spokesman for the Communications Workers union accused the company of "mean and inappropriate" behavior for breaking the news during the holiday season, Chairman James Olson insisted that the belt tightening was necessary to counter growing...
...divine. At first glance, the scientific exactness of his still lifes makes them look as though they were descended from the nature sketches of Albrecht Durer. But in ambition they were more akin to the work of the European abstractionist painters. Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian wanted not only to wipe clean the slate of Western art but to scrub consciousness itself, clearing it of worldly distractions as a way of opening it up to the beyond. Though Weston kept some distance from the California versions of Theosophy and Zen, he too regarded his still lifes as more than just worthy...
...companies that elect to leave find it necessary to advance substantial start-up loans to local buyers. GM, for example, plans to underwrite the sale of its $176 million in assets in South Africa to its own local executives and lend the new management an additional $44 million to wipe out the company's current indebtedness. These loans, which will be repaid from profits in future years, may be considered "new investments" in South Africa under the U.S. sanctions law and therefore illegal after Nov. 16, when the law goes into effect. Some other American firms will probably scramble...
This sudden, aggressive activism no doubt reflects a genuine desire on the part of political leaders to wipe out drug abuse in the U.S. But this is an election year. Being against drug abuse may seem about as extraordinary a stand as being for motherhood, yet conservatives and liberals alike are making sure the voters know where they stand. "There aren't a lot of emotional, personal issues this year," explains Barbara Pardue, spokeswoman for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. "The drug issue cuts across all economic and age groups, older people, teenagers, parents, you name it. Blacks are concerned...
...What you will see is no illusion," Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino told jurors in a packed Los Angeles courtroom. "These were not deaths in which someone can get up and wipe the bloody-looking catsup off their faces . . . They were very, very real deaths." Indeed, said D'Agostino, it was Director John Landis' "zeal for realism" during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie that took the lives of Actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on July...