Wipe Out

The sub prime mortgage wipe-out was triggered by the expiring two-year teaser rates on loans with inflated appraisals. ❋ Martin T. Sosnoff (2011)

Greg Benford's "Penumbra" imagines a near wipe-out by a gamma-ray burst—a scenario we know could happen. ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)

I had one bad wipe-out last winter, on Lincoln southbound by the Paulina station. ❋ Renee Patten (2011)

With the seriously deteriorating situation in the financial markets in September 2008 investors fully expected a subordinated debt wipe-out at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or at the very least a massive restructuring calling for a significant haircut. ❋ Raymond J. Learsy (2011)

The carbon pricing has been risk-reduced by 25% for this, but there is no guarantee against a complete wipe-out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Portugal looked languid until a wipe-out of North Korea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eighteen months ago, we experienced the near the near wipe-out of our global banking system, and today we face the threatened destruction of the European Monetary Union. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if I remember rightly, it was a complete wipe-out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My two little troopers may have come close to a land speed record, but the wipe-out they took right at the end was the show stopper. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Working-class wives flooded into the workplace to keep incomes from falling, but meanwhile salt-of-the-earth Americans became far more vulnerable to abrupt wipe-out, as documented by Joseph Hacker in The Great American Risk Shift (not to mention the recent recession). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The draft called for "drastic monetary easing" to prevent Japan from facing "wipe-out deflation." ❋ Nicholas Hastings (2010)

This is not meant as a simplistic antidote or pop-psych prescriptive "wipe-out" of complexity and despair. ❋ Dr. Cheryl Pappas (2010)

The result was a wipe-out for the DPJ, at least as far as Upper House elections go. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Take them over, restructure them, wipe-out that bad assets, clear out the stockholders, then sell off the good assets to private firms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He lost it on stage two, the victim of a mass wipe-out, but not before the Gazzetta dello Sport had called him "a winner on the bike and in words". ❋ Unknown (2010)

So if Democrats are to avoid a wipe-out, they need to protect some of the big gains they made two years ago among self-described independents, who, in some polls, make up 40 percent of likely voters in November. ❋ Unknown (2010)