Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield and penned "Cabin in the Woods" with Joss Whedon, had drafted a script for the story, in which a high-functioning artificial intelligence turns against mankind and wages all-out war to wipe us off the planet.

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Just a piece of wood and take and - you don't even to wipe it off.

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Nevertheless, the upshot of the proposed bill for Blackstone's would be to wipe billions of dollars off the valuation of the buy-out giant.

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That alone might seem quite enough to wipe the smirk off the face of even the keenest would-be foreign minister.

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About 40% of that revenue would be a result of not extending the 2001-03 tax cuts for high-income households and another 30% would come from the deduction cap (so you could wipe that off the books already).

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