Stores like Target, Wal-Mart, and Kmart were favorite stops for retailtheft gangs, who travelled from store to store and state to state, wiping out entire shelves' worth of products.
MICHIGAN STATE (8-2) beat Iowa, 37-21 Next: vs. Indiana, Saturday Michigan State wiped away 22 years of frustration at Iowa, winning at Kinnick Stadium for the first time since 1989, and also took a big step toward a spot in the Big Ten's first title game.
You have three entire states wiped out: Arizona, California and Nevada.
For centuries, wars reallocated huge territories, as empires were agglomerated or dismantled and states wiped off the map.
But now, taking advantage of the intense focus on Bergen, William Schuber, the Bergen County executive, and other officials are trying to get the state to wipe out the entire debt.
This article, these dramatic aerial photos and this graphic make it clear that, as David M. Halbfinger writes, Hurricane Sandy "destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers".
HOBOKEN, N.J. — New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
In fact, his most famous comment ever — that, after 9/11, Gov. George Pataki just stood behind Rudy Giuliani and "held the leader's coat" — was so clear and simple that it offended half the state and wiped out every shred of hope Cuomo had of winning the gubernatorial nomination in 2002.
I was barely making more than I had been in the midwest, and the difference in CA state taxes wiped out almost all of that.
A Massachusetts state trooper wiped his eyes while testifying about 16 stab wounds to the neck of a slain math teacher that were allegedly inflicted by a student.
Even if the reeling Islamic State is wiped off the map, a large pool of disaffected youth Muslim and otherwise looms, threatening to erupt into another wave of pain and horror.
