Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wipe the smirk off your face. This is not a paid announcement for Gore 2000. Of course, things are far from perfect--life at the bottom of the ladder remains a desperate struggle for millions of Americans, and scrambling up the rungs can seem well-nigh impossible. But get used to it, pilgrim: For better or worse, this may be just about as good as it gets in the U.S.A...
...miner's shrewdness: Don't sell your stake unless it's running out. But her rebuff also reflects a century of skirmishing between Western miners and the feds: "We Montanans feel pretty strongly about our love of the land," she says. "It is not American to be trying to wipe out selective private property...
...design on a roll of Kleenex quilted toilet tissue bore a striking resemblance to his unique pattern. This month he and Pentaplex Ltd., which markets his design, filed suit against Kimberly-Clark Ltd. for copyright infringement. "When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited ...to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a Knight of the Realm without his permission," a Pentaplex representative stated, "then a last stand must be taken." A spokesman at the company's U.S. headquarters noted that after its 1995 merger with Scott Paper, the license for Kleenex bathroom...
...stadium, arena, course, court, ring or ball park. The V.P. can talk to the UPS guy about the De La Hoya-Whitaker fight. The cabbie and the fare can share their amazement over Tiger's victory. The vendor and the suit can smile at each other as they wipe away tears brought forth by Jackie's image...
...also designed not only to wipe out existing chemical weapons stockpiles, but also to provide a defense scheme for nations that come under chemical attack. The CWC provides carrots for its member nations including "arrangements for speedy assistance in the event of chemical weapons attack and the loosening up of export controls" according to Stephen J. Ledogar, the chief American delegate to the treaty's 1992 drafting. The CWC constitutes a positive effort to unite countries against chemical weapons, not merely a set of negative prohibitions against the possession of chemical weapons...