Word: wipes
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...catastrophic illness will wipe out their savings...
...correction? The board didn't foresee its happening soon, but members didn't rule it out. Nor did they see a major slippage in stock markets as the end of the world economy. A slide of 35% in the value of the New York Stock Exchange would surely wipe out the U.S. "wealth effect" and decimate public confidence. But, Courtis argued, the fundamental transformations brought about by globalization and the Internet would provide a foundation for another boom. Besides, as Hormats put it, "investors have a greater sense of confidence that when the markets go down, governments know...
...backcourt area of the Murr Cnter's Barnaby Courts features a wipe-away message board that currently exhorts the team to, "Leave it all on the court. At the end of the day, it's all that...
PAYBACK TIME Thinking of going belly up? Better hurry up. The Senate passed a bill last week that will make it harder to file for bankruptcy. Lenders have groused that current law allows consumers, even those with the means to pay, to wipe out debt too easily. In the new law, which is expected to be signed in some form by the President, getting a clean slate will be more difficult, and payback schedules will be more common...
Case began his professional life as cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network...