Word: destroyer
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...doctors performing colon surgery on Ronald Reagan, shocked the nation last year by announcing on television, "The President has cancer." And it was Rosenberg who caused a flurry in December with the report that he had used a natural body chemical to stimulate cells from the immune system to destroy human tumors. Now the NCI researcher and his colleagues were announcing a new cancer-killing cell in the body that was "50 to 100 times" as effective in animal trials as the one they experimented with last year...
...Star Wars" program. National intelligence agencies do not dish out cash on the same scale as the Department of Defense, but "spook" funding still poses a double threat to responsible scholarship. First, it imposes the risk of the government censoring or biasing sensitive research, and second, such support can destroy the credibility of both the scholar and his institution...
...action down at City Hall last spring, a first-term city councillor offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
Then the Hunts took the offensive. The brothers filed two suits against their bankers, charging them with "conspiring to dismantle and ultimately destroy" Hunt interests. They asked for some $14 billion in damages. The maneuver made sense. Indeed, suing one's lenders is becoming an increasingly common negotiating tactic among debtors. It often forces the creditors to settle at terms more favorable to the debtors...
...issue, of course, was economic sanctions against South Africa, which 48 Commonwealth governments support but Thatcher has steadfastly opposed. She argues that sanctions would work hardship on millions of blacks in South Africa and neighboring countries while failing to destroy apartheid; she also feared the effect they might have on Britain's estimated $18 billion investment in South Africa and its $3 billion in annual trade with that country...