Word: wipes
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...Stehr remembers hard days in the 1980s, when the quotas and low prices threatened to wipe out local Port Lincoln operators. Then the tuna men had the brilliant idea of netting their quota of just over 5,000 tons, towing it slowly into the port, and holding it there in pens to be fattened on pilchards and anchovies for a few months. Profits surged as the weight of the average fish doubled to over 32 kg, and links were forged with the lucrative Japanese sashimi trade...
...dispossess Palestinian Arabs, but the consequence of an invasion launched by five Arab countries against Israel, the same countries that targeted their own Jewish communities. Moreover, war didn’t “ensue.” it was initiated by countries determined to “wipe Israel off the map.” While some Palestinian Arabs fled their homes out of fear of the Israeli army, many were encouraged to leave by their own leaders, assured they would soon return after an Arab victory. When this victory failed to materialize, these Palestinians were kept in refugee...
...Badr Brigade - a militia tied to a Shi'ite political party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which is the chief rival of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. A number of MPs in Baghdad even suspect that Maliki's Basra assault was a poorly disguised government campaign to wipe out Sadr's base of popularity before local elections in October. That's why it was no surprise, said Lieutenant Ryan Lawson, who is based in Hilla, that Brigadier General Abdul Amir's Badr-dominated forces in Hilla were "chomping at the bit to go after [the Mahdi Army]" during...
...Kaesong to leave the country. The incident was only the start of a North Korean temper tantrum that has plunged North-South relations to their lowest point in a decade. On March 28, North Korea test-fired a barrage of missiles into the sea and warned it would "mercilessly wipe out" any South Korean vessels that violated its territorial waters. Two days later, a military official threatened to turn South Korea to "ashes...
...they would be barred from participating in October's nationwide local elections if they did not disband the Mahdi Army. Although much of the government backed Maliki's statement, even his allies acknowledged it would be an uphill battle. "Let's be realistic, Maliki's main goal is to wipe out the Sadrists before elections because he knows his bloc will lose to them," Alia Nasayif Jasim, a legislator from the secular Iraqi National Accord party, told TIME. "It is impossible to wipe out the Sadrists. If the government is serious, it should dissolve all militias including those linked...