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And reporters can question Gore's inference that any candidate who fails to reserve 15 percent of the surplus for Medicare is putting the program "at risk" and "wiping out" the chance to "save" it.
USAT 's Y2K/health care story is hooked to Senate hearings to be held today on such problems as: crashing computers wiping out medical records, intravenous feeders and dialysis machines going haywire, and back-up generators failing.
He kept wiping his hands on the front of the apron as he listened to the women, his wet eyes examining her lips as she studied the samples and talked.
What makes "sanitary wiping paper" (to use the wonderful cadences of marketing-speak) stretchy and absorbent is a process called "creping": A metal blade removes the paper as it dries from the steel cylinder on which it was formed, lowering the paper's density.
You wouldn't try to control an ecosystem, wiping out species you didn't like and promoting ones you did, would you?