Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gulf the largest concentration of American military force since the Vietnam War. Let's use it. Air strikes against Silkworm missile sites and Iranian weapons factories would cripple Teheran's ability to attack shipping in the Gulf. And if Iran causes more trouble, the American task force could wipe out Iran's entire air force--all 26 planes--and then go to work on Teheran's precious Revolutionary Guards at the front. Even the TOW missiles we sold them wouldn't do them any good...
...poor birds' fault. Over the ages, those little sparrows managed to survive hurricanes, fires and floods. But they were no match for the bulldozers. It took nature tens of thousands of years to create the Dusky Seaside Sparrow. It took man little more than two decades to wipe...
...race relations, was cited by the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954) that separate schools for blacks are unconstitutional; in Stockholm. In 1968 his massive ten-year study, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, maintained that land reform would wipe out Third World poverty. Myrdal was awarded a Nobel medal for economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four years after being named a Nobel Peace laureate for her tireless advocacy of nuclear disarmament, helped design the Swedish welfare state. Nonetheless, Gunnar Myrdal in 1980 charged...
...country's 100,000 independent manufacturer's representatives are currently incensed at Wal-Mart, claiming that the chain is trying to run them out of business by dealing directly with its suppliers. Meanwhile, Mom-and-pop-store owners contend that Wal-Mart's cut-rate prices have helped wipe out Main Street shopping. In the past, Wal-Mart's conservative management has drawn some flak for being too slow to promote women, which the company says is untrue, and for being too quick to submit to Preacher Jimmy Swaggart's plea to ban rock magazines like Rolling Stone from store...
...arcane, often confounding world of nuclear diplomacy, the zero option seems refreshingly simple: the U.S. and the Soviet Union would define a certain category of weapons in a certain region of the world, then wipe clean that particular corner of the slate. In the history of a slogging, controversial enterprise that has so often meant merely regulating the bloated arsenals of the superpowers rather than reducing them, the idea sounds innovative and bold. It would appear to be not just arms control but a big step toward real disarmament. Where now there are hundreds of weapons, soon there would...