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...served, albeit unwillingly, as a safety valve for Mexico's employment problem. The country has one of the Western Hemisphere's higher birth rates. Even taking oil wealth into account, the expected population growth (from 68 million today to an estimated 132 million by the year 2000) threatens to wipe out rapid increases in the gross national product ($92 billion...
...Tennessee River. Because the creature was found only in these waters, it was entitled to protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But it also provided legal leverage for environmentalists who saw the dam as a pork barrel that would deluge 16,000 acres of fertile farm land and wipe out Indian historical sites...
...added, "Our goal is to completely wipe out imports of foreign oil to Canada...
...will wipe them out! The nation voted for the Islamic republic and everyone should obey. If you do not obey, you will be annihilated...
...today, while the number of U.S. ICBMs has stayed at 1,054. Kissinger repeated what a number of witnesses had already told the Senators: that by the early 1980s, "improvements in missile accuracy and warhead technology will put the Soviets in a position to wipe out" nearly all U.S. land-based ICBMs. Said Kissinger: "Rarely in history has a nation so passively accepted a radical change in the military balance...