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...Wipe out many of the distinctions between banks and S and Ls, permitting each to invade the other's turf. S and Ls, which now concentrate on making mortgage loans, could offer checking accounts, credit cards and consumer loans. Banks could accept savings accounts from corporations, which only S and Ls can do now, and would be encouraged to expand mortgage lending. Regulations on loan size and collateral that now restrict banks' mortgage lending would be eased...
...armed forces, which ten years ago were no larger than the Montevideo fire department, were beefed up in the late '60s to cope with the daring raids of the Tupamaro guerrillas. Not long after Bordaberry, a conservative rancher, became President last year, he called in the army to wipe out the terrorists, which it did with brutal effectiveness...
...Reilly was summoned to Heinz's Pittsburgh headquarters in 1971 as a senior vice president. One of his recommendations was that Heinz wipe out an unprofitable Mexican subsidiary. The move forced Heinz to take a $25 million write-off, which in turn caused it last week to report a drop in profits for the fiscal year ended in May to $22 million, from $42 million in fiscal 1972. That bothered O'Reilly not a bit. He describes his management philosophy as "cost-oriented. I guess I am rather tough in this area...
Many doctors would agree with the President's opinion. That is one of the reasons why they have been rallying to oppose the aims of the Administration-backed National Cancer Act of 1971, which authorized an ambitious and costly program to wipe out cancer through a coordinated attack. Cancer, they argue, cannot be conquered by a massive, single-minded effort...
...jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe out the son's inheritance at roulette and, with a nasty sneer, take over the manor himself...