Their Westminster wipe-out only occurred in 1997, long after Margaret Thatcher left office.
The most famous mass wipe-out was the loss of the dinosaurs.
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.
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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.
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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.
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As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And you might wipe out the entire preceding 24-hour period, not just the bad stuff.
Looking to wipe out memories of a 5-1 weekend domestic league thrashing by Zaragoza, Real took the lead through Raul Gonzalez.
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.
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It does not take much depreciation to wipe out an annual yield of 3-4% a year.
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They will be sent instantaneously on the Internet to wipe out the delay of a trans-Pacific flight.
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.
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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).
His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.
The ongoing episode indicates that despite Estrada's repeated vows to wipe out corruption, graft remains a deep-rooted problem.
An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.
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.
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.
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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.
Despite the credit rating, investors fear that punitive-damage awards could cripple the industry, or even wipe it out.
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