In fact, cutting-edge financial models contributed to it by getting behavior so wrong — helping to wipe out $50 trillion in global wealth and causing untold human suffering.
He totaled 322 yards of offense and helped to wipe out a 14-point halftime deficit by igniting a 15-point third quarter.
But when it became clear that stock option deductions had helped to wipe out more than $625 million in taxes that Enron owed to the government from 1996 to 2000, concern about preferential treatment of corporate stock options got new life.
And perhaps the country once again finds itself in a time where, as the author Philip Wylie once said, sick jokes help to "wipe away a little of the burden of terror put on us by living in this age".
The Montreal second baseman, Jose Vidro, pounded his second home run of the game, helping to wipe out a three-run lead the Mets had scratched out in the previous half inning.
Oil is $74 a barrel, on the surface, but is worth much less underground.Petrobras is Latin America's largest company by market value, but it is short of cash and its feud with the government has helped to wipe 25% off its shares since the start of the year.
Or blame Katherine Harris, the state official who helped to wipe thousands of Democratic voters off the rolls by claiming they were criminals no longer entitled to vote or didn't exist at all because officials failed to record their current addresses.
If The Birth of a Nation is as Xan Brooks described it – "cinema's toxic tide-pool, its corrupted semen" – then recent developments such as the release of Selma (incidentally the most recent film to screen at the White House) are helping to wipe up the mess.
Maize, which comes from the sub-tropics, requires a great deal of fertiliser and pesticide to grow well in this country, and much of this washes off with the soil, into the rivers and the sea, helping to wipe out many of the animals they harbour.
