Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have decided to wipe out the Harvard-MIT braintrust by dropping a 25-megaton nuclear warhead in Cambridge, but the CIA finds out in time to warn President Reagan, who notifies Governor King, who calls Chester E. Hallice...
...mass uprising, the commission insisted that the current offensive was not, after all, the "final" one. But what goaded the guerrillas into action at this time was their well-founded fear that Ronald Reagan, as President, will give the military all the American aid and advisers necessary to wipe out the leftists. Such a swing to the right, it is believed, could even sweep Duarte from power...
Miller persuaded representatives of Chrysler's 150 lenders, mostly banks, to wipe out the company's $1.1 billion in private debt; more than half of the outstanding loans will be converted to preferred stock, and the remainder can be paid off at the rate of 30? on the dollar. Miller also helped talk the United Auto Workers into what Union President Douglas Fraser called "the worst economic settlement we've ever made." The U.A.W. leaders accepted $622 million in additional wage concessions in exchange for a package of noneconomic gains, including a blue-collar profit-sharing program...
Hawaiians realize that their economic growth depends on making tourists feel more secure. Impromptu citizens' groups have lobbied for greater police protection and harsher sentences for criminals. Elderly residents have marched in the streets with banners reading WIPE OUT CRIME IN OUR LIFETIME. Voters this fall elected candidates who promised sweeping changes. After twelve years in office, Mayor Frank Fasi was defeated by Eileen Anderson, an energetic reformer...
...covered with sweat. A civilian strides up to the soldiers from the crowd and pulls a wet washcloth from his pocket. He begins to dab the faces of the two men, methodically. They do not move, speak, blink, but they allow him to shift their chin straps slightly to wipe their lips. He asks them repeatedly if they are comfortable, and though they do not reply, he seems satisfied that they are. The crowd smiles to see his humane act; small children mock the soldiers' stiff stance but are only able to hold still for a few seconds. A troop...