• Their Westminster wipe-out only occurred in 1997, long after Margaret Thatcher left office.

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher - The quintessentially English PM

  • The most famous mass wipe-out was the loss of the dinosaurs.

    BBC: Why such a fuss about extinction?

  • Clearly, this was due to the wipe-out of speculators on margin who were not buying silver as a monetary reserve, but as a risky trade.

    FORBES: Silver Down 30%, Gold Off 11% As Panic Hits Precious Metals

  • However, it now looks like RIMM might be able to avoid a complete August wipe-out as the new Bold Touch is poised to ship 2-3 weeks earlier than anticipated in Europe, Middle East and Asia.

    FORBES: RIMM: Will Wide Bold 9900 Launch Save The August Quarter?

  • Here again in 2011-2012, the crisis proved good for gold at first, but the whole move has been unwound as global credit deflation sucked the air out of gold futures and options, and wipe-out losses in other assets forced even true believers to quit their positions.

    FORBES: Gold Erases Last Summer's Gains But Don't Count It Out

  • As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.

    FORBES: Digital rules

  • Duke broke open what had been a close game by outscoring Cornell (14-6) 7-1 in the third quarter to wipe out a 5-2 deficit.

    WSJ: Duke beats Cornell to advance to lacrosse final

  • Bendtner - heavily criticised after a succession of misses in Saturday's win against Burnley - scored twice in the first half to wipe out the 2-1 lead Porto were protecting from the first game in Portugal.

    BBC: Arsenal 5-0 Porto (6-2)

  • That brings me to the second momentous conclusion of Mr Fisher's admission that a 6.5% drop in residency can wipe out profits - which is that (many would argue) it is far too risky a basis to run a company charged with looking after the welfare of 31, 000 vulnerable elderly people.

    BBC: NHP controls fate of Southern Cross

  • According to the Bank of England's analysis, if every single one of those countries went bust and wrote off 50% of their sovereign debt, banking debt and non-bank private-sector debt, that would wipe out around half the capital in the UK banking system - which is another way of saying that, in theory, the majority of our banks would limp on.

    BBC: Why UK banks are not immune to eurozone woes

  • They got in after rallying for an extra-inning victory over the San Diego Padres in a one-game tiebreaker, and then proceeded to wipe out the Philadelphia Phillies in three straight opening-round games.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We can see that regardless of why our own mate left, there was nothing about it that should wipe out our self-esteem and there wasn't necessarily anything we could have done that would have saved our relationship.

    CNN: We care that Aniston's getting married. Why?

  • It's then hard to imagine how the world's biggest retailers will wipe out the small mom-and-pop stores, which work to an organized chaos that few inventory-keeping systems can mimic.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • D. in plant virology from the University of Bath in the U.K. in 1991, she tried various conventional hybridization techniques to outbreed the viruses that wipe out the otherwise drought-resistant and energy-rich tuber.

    FORBES: Millions Served

  • The resulting business, with its higher debts, would pay very little or zero corporation tax, because the interest on the debt was deductible from profits - and would therefore wipe out any taxable corporation tax.

    BBC: The financial lessons of Southern Cross

  • 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.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • And you might wipe out the entire preceding 24-hour period, not just the bad stuff.

    FORBES: Oblivion in a Pill

  • Looking to wipe out memories of a 5-1 weekend domestic league thrashing by Zaragoza, Real took the lead through Raul Gonzalez.

    BBC: Real come good

  • The only logical remedy for that problem, he and others have said, is to dispose of those ballots altogether--a move that would wipe out Bush's lead in the state but also would disenfranchise thousands of voters and would therefore run counter to the Gore team's overriding strategy.

    CNN: latimes.com: Anxious Christopher sounds conciliatory notes

  • It does not take much depreciation to wipe out an annual yield of 3-4% a year.

    ECONOMIST: Why are both Treasury bonds and gold performing so well?

  • They will be sent instantaneously on the Internet to wipe out the delay of a trans-Pacific flight.

    ECONOMIST: Australia as a film location

  • This is a very big problem because once confidence returns, and credit begins to flow more easily, we could end up with runaway inflation, an even bigger problem as this would wipe out savings and have a wealth-destroying effect.

    FORBES: Basel Barriers: How capital requirements would impede progress in the sovereign debt crisis

  • What is more, for wheat the increasing level of carbon dioxide that is changing the climate also makes photosynthesis easier, which should have increased yields enough to wipe out perhaps half of the climate-related loss (maize, which photosynthesises in a different way, is thus the bigger loser of the two in net terms).

    ECONOMIST: Climate change and crops

  • His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.

    BBC: Robbie Williams

  • The ongoing episode indicates that despite Estrada's repeated vows to wipe out corruption, graft remains a deep-rooted problem.

    CNN: CASH GOING BEGGING

  • An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.

    ECONOMIST: Can it ever again be business as usual?

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: More transatlantic gripes

  • Based at Tres Esquinas, 145 kilometres (90 miles) from Puerto Asis, the prime task of these battalions, officials say, is to secure Putumayo, to enable police to attack its drug-processing laboratories and intensify their efforts to wipe out its coca plantations by spraying them with herbicides.

    ECONOMIST: Putumayo��s tense wait for the arrival of Plan Colombia

  • Tourism is one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners, but the pictures from Lombok of rock-throwing protesters and gangs upending cars will surely wipe out a big hunk of that revenue.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Cover: Raging Inferno

  • Despite the credit rating, investors fear that punitive-damage awards could cripple the industry, or even wipe it out.

    ECONOMIST: Bond markets

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