Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven "Baby Bell" regional phone companies. Not entirely by coincidence, it earned $4.7 billion in 1994 and $2.8 billion in the first nine months of 1995. (A write-off against fourth-quarter earnings of $4 billion after taxes for severance pay and related costs, however, may wipe out most of its earnings for the full year.) It had been obvious too that more firings were coming at AT&T ever since the company said last September that it would split itself into three unequal pieces...
...expected to endorse it. The idea is picking up so much steam that the real estate lobby is planning to broadcast radio commercials in Iowa and New Hampshire to pressure candidates not to make their tax plans too flat. The lobby is worried that a flat tax might wipe out the deduction for mortgage-interest payments, which subsidizes the housing market to the tune of $60 billion a year...
...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a rightwing extremist was not intended as a symbolic act. Yigal Amir meant quite simply to wipe out the leader of a political party and a political process he despised. And that is what...
...unused parts. They buy most of their food in bulk and reuse their plastic sandwich bags. Patricia O'Leary, a bookkeeper from East Brunswick, New Jersey, has read 20 simple-living books and subscribes to three simplicity newsletters, which she says have helped her and her husband Daniel wipe out a $19,000 credit-card debt. "We're happier now," she says, "and we have more time for the kids [who get new toys only for Christmas and birthdays]. We used to have take-out food three nights a week. Now we usually get a pizza delivered on Fridays...
...late to save the Galapagos. Among prescriptions scientists suggest: cut off immigration, institute a quarantine system to keep out foreign species, upgrade waste and sewage systems, give park rangers more funds and authority to wipe out poaching and illegal fishing, and give local inhabitants a bigger stake in the tourism industry...