Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if Congress and the president did compromise on national healthcare, legislation alone could not solve these problems, unless it could win the war on drugs, end handgun use, wipe out the health problems of the poor, eliminate homelessness, find a cure for AIDS, and end alcoholism. Fat chance...
...City University of New York (CUNY), according to CUNY's student newspaper, he once told a class, "If I had my way, I'd wipe [whites] off the face of the earth...
Jeffries can think whatever he wants. He can also say whatever he wants, within constitutional limits. But New York State need not and should not pay him to say it. We tend not to think that public education should encourage students to wipe whites off the face of the earth...
...this culture of privilege, so stubbornly protected, is not well suited to these hard times. When uninsured workers live in fear that one illness could wipe out their life savings, it is enraging to hear of the House pharmacy dispensing free prescription drugs, not to mention the private congressional ambulance that protects members from the urban nightmare of emergency-room gridlock. When families who know how to squeeze a dollar until the eagle screams still cannot find the money for a haircut, the House barber takes on a special symbolic weight. When young families cannot get a mortgage...
...decade. Scientists objected that locking many of the instruments aboard just two craft would make the program inflexible. If new discoveries were made during the mission, how could the platforms be redesigned to accommodate unplanned research? Moreover, a Hubble-like glitch or catastrophic accident could wipe out a major portion of the project. Says Tom Donahue, a University of Michigan professor of planetary science: "NASA didn't seem to realize that it was putting too many eggs into one basket...