Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge. That could be to our advantage. While fearing the volatility of the Falkland crisis, men like Henry Kissinger our a signal to the rest of the world from Britain that there is a "limit to our endurance of defeatism." The Pentagon assessment is that the British can wipe out the Argentine fleet. The diplomatic assessment is that we had better stop every thing before that happens or all parties lose, especially us. The nuclear protests may be in part irresponsible, but they also represent a healthy questioning of policy that has gone unexamined for too long a time...
After a nine-game swing down South over spring break, the Crimson baseball team was supposed to open its Eastern season last Tuesday against MIT. And then there was snow. And more snow. Enough to wipe out both the MIT and Boston College games...
...immediate Israeli military rationale for an attack on southern Lebanon is to wipe out the P.L.O. guerrillas based there. Beyond that, Israel would like to help its allies, the Lebanese Christians, become stronger, and if possible force Syria to withdraw its 30,000-man peace-keeping force from Lebanon. To bolster his military aims, Sharon, with the backing of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, is also touting a political rationale for such a maneuver. He believes that the P.L.O. would have no place to go except Jordan, from which it was forcibly expelled in a brutal crackdown by King Hussein...
...reductions in proposed outlays for federal spending on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which sends monthly welfare checks to some 11 million individuals. The President's budget projects expenditures of $5.5 billion in fiscal 1983, a 29% drop below current levels. This slash is deep enough to wipe out all recent AFDC increases when inflation is taken into account. Spending on the program was $6.4 billion in 1977, and the 1983 level would sink to $3.2 billion after adjustment for inflation...
...virtue coincide. Behold the Graffiti Gobbler-"the first effective, no mix, inexpensive formula that quickly and easily removes graffiti without harming the original appearance of the surface." (Did you feel your heart leap?) Already proved successful in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Detroit and Windsor, Ont. (Canadian graffiti?), the "spray-on, wipe-off' Gobbler is right now being tested on the New York City subways, the end of the line. If it works there, its Australian inventor, Norman Shuttleworth, will be the Emperor of Gotham. No fame will equal his. His name will appear on every wall in the city...