Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Price v. Supply. Obviously, none of this solves the FPC's dilemma. What could? Nothing short of abolishing the agency altogether, says Chairman Dunham. He favors creation of a single, streamlined federal agency to handle all energy matters, even though that would wipe out his own job. Since President-elect Carter has proposed the same thing, there is a good chance that the FPC will indeed disappear one of these days, unloved and unlamented. But unless Congress also resolves the question of whether to choose low prices or plentiful supplies, an energy superagency would only be handed...
...Though the suit could drag on for years, the town was stunned to learn in September that the leading Boston bond counsel, Ropes & Gray, refused to okay a $4 million bond issue for a new school. Its reason: since Indian lands cannot be taxed, a Wampanoag legal victory could wipe out the tax base for paying off the bonds. Word spread quickly to local banks, which began shutting off mortgage loans. Says Mashpee Selectman George Benway: "Ninetynine percent of all real estate transactions have stopped. Building funds have dried up. The whole town has stopped...
...helping Corallo arrange the murder last month of its chief, Andimo Pappadio. Now, according to a Mafia insider, Galente will stop at nothing to take power: "If everybody don't get in line, there's gonna be a lot of heads rolling. Lillo's gonna wipe up the streets with a few people that didn't bow down to him when he come out of the joint [prison] or didn't bow down to him when he was in the joint, even worse...
...twists of the Bible by which Father McNeill [Sept. 20] justifies homosexuality are but another victory in the anti-Christ campaign to wipe out every trace of self-discipline and self-control...
...commercials. Now 28 and a seasoned cinema bunkmate (appearing with Al Pacino in Serpico, with Michael Sarrazin in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), the actress has sunk her straightened teeth into a new role. Cast as a neo-Mata Hari in The Next Man, Sharpe sets out to wipe out a Saudi Arabian Minister of State, played by Sean Cannery, 46. Would-be assassin, however, quickly turns amorist. "It's a love story dipped in oil," coos Cornelia, who hints that her days as a femme fatale might be heading for a fadeout. "I don't think...