Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When one of the female jocks would make her case for women's sports, some all-knowing basketball stud was quick to retort, "But babe, can you jam?" And so knowing that there were no organized pro women's leagues, and confident that Jimmy Connors could wipe the baseline with Chris Evert, we male jocks simply pursued our daily practice routines while snickering at the women who were trying to do pushups on their field...
...company's auto-manufacturing division last year. Leyland still earns money from bus and truck production, and from its special-products division. In fact, it has just announced earnings of $120 million for the 15-month period ending in December. The strike losses will all but wipe out these profits, however. That jeopardizes future loans from the government, which are essential to provide the $425 million that Leyland needs to make a new version of its low-priced Mini. As of now, Leyland will need all its skill, resources and bulldog British grit to keep turning out its present...
...alone, narcotics agents last year "removed" Mexican drugs worth close to $600 million from the underground market. The Mexican government is determined to wipe out all of this prosperous drug traffic. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited the Condor base headquarters at Jose del Llano, joined a party of helicopter raiders and sent this report...
...first French mistake was to send in as a negotiator Major Pierre Gallopin, who had served as a military adviser to the Chad government in its efforts to wipe out the very rebels who captured Claustre. Habre ordered his execution-reportedly by slitting open his abdomen and tying him to the hind legs of a camel. Four later envoys escaped alive, but were no more successful than Galopin in liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused...
Many problems remain. Bad weather over the next few years could wipe out food-production gains. Businessmen generally support Mrs. Gandhi's programs, but complain that investment is restricted by monetary and credit controls imposed to hold down inflation...