Word: wipes
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...goal was to wipe out the deficit by 1992 -- a year ahead of the target in the latest version of the Gramm-Rudman law. The case for balancing the budget sooner rather than later is simple: the longer it takes, the more difficult it becomes, and the more costly the delay. During his terms, Reagan has amassed a higher deficit total ($1.25 trillion) than all previous Presidents combined. In the process, he and Congress have more than doubled the national debt, to $2.36 trillion. Meanwhile, interest on the debt has snowballed, threatening to bury the financial fortunes of generations...
...universe began, and the mature cosmos that is observable today. Though there is no final proof yet, many astronomers find Elston's circumstantial evidence convincing. Says Patrick McCarthy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley: "This is a very good bet. If they can prove it, it will wipe out a number of theories on the formation of large-scale structure in the universe." Declared Hyron Spinrad, another Berkeley astronomer, more simply: "If true, it's spectacular...
Neither solution is a possible end. The latter would deny the liberal tradition of the Jews. The former would wipe out the concept of the Jewish state. Some other solution must be found and it can only be achieved at the initiative of all Jews...
...came about: Once upon a time the man in the White House said to the man in the Kremlin, "Hey, you've got a whole category of weapons we don't like. We've got a whole category of weapons you don't like. Why don't we just wipe clean the slate?" After 72 months of contentious, suspenseful, stop-and-go negotiation, the man in the Kremlin said, "O.K. It's a deal." With that, Mr. Gorbachev comes to Washington, pen in hand...
Moreover, Merck declared it would donate enough of the new drug through the World Health Organization to wipe out river blindness, possibly by the year 2000. For more than a decade, WHO has mounted spraying campaigns that have curbed the malady by attacking the carrier black flies. But in many areas the insects developed a resistance to the sprays. Enter ivermectin. The drug works by attacking the primary cause of the disease, the worms. Although it does not kill the invading parasites, biannual doses of ivermectin can prevent them from reproducing. Predicts Halfdan Mahler, director-general of WHO: "Ivermectin will...