Kosan has generated several hundred variants of the antibiotic, some of which wipe out strains of bacteria that are resistant to most other marketed drugs--in test tube and animal experiments, anyway.
The Habitat Restoration Project on the Atlantic island of South Georgia aims to wipe out millions of rats that first arrived on sealing and whaling ships.
The commercial aviation industry is eager to become a major buyer of biofuels as a hedge against oil price spikes that can wipe out years of profit.
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It may even wipe out parts of the insurance industry and thus leave consumers worse off.
Looking to wipe out memories of a 5-1 weekend domestic league thrashing by Zaragoza, Real took the lead through Raul Gonzalez.
Romania, for example, whose currency dropped 20% last year, has seen a big rise in labour costs wipe out much of its price advantage.
Clearly, this was due to the wipe-out of speculators on margin who were not buying silver as a monetary reserve, but as a risky trade.
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These higher yields equate to lower bond prices which, in effect, wipe out years of interest, considering there is an inverse relationship between price and yield.
Amerco also claims PwC acted recklessly when it told Amerco it had to consolidate the special-purpose entity on its own financial statements in 2002, causing Amerco to restate two years of numbers and wipe out 92% of its reported 2001 net income.
Researchers at the University of Texas are warning that the invasive species from South America has the potential to change the ecological balance in the southeastern United States, largely because the ants can wipe out colonies of what's been widely considered the insect villain of the region, the fire ant.
But they fear that the speed of technological improvements today can wipe out broad categories of jobs faster than the economy can easily absorb and re-focus the blow.
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In the heart of Africa, near the headwaters of the Congo River, the Congolese Army is attempting to wipe out a group of renegade militiamen.
Wipe out the idea of a beach getaway spent just gazing at waves from the sand.
But it has done less to help wipe out the vestiges of the Taliban.
They said the Maliki government is trying to wipe them out ahead of provincial elections in October.
They will be sent instantaneously on the Internet to wipe out the delay of a trans-Pacific flight.
The association estimates the regulations could wipe out a quarter of the Indian IT sector's global revenue.
Bosnia's cultural heritage was systematically destroyed to wipe out all traces of a past shared by the different communities.
It will also effectively wipe out the cost of living allowance save for potential increases once every five years.
Now, wipe out 57% of them. 57% of our top graduates are women.
An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.
The effect will be to wipe out a swathe of luxury imports from Italian pecorino cheese to British cashmere sweaters to Louis Vuitton handbags from France.
Grown-ups including politicians may have a duty to offer children reassurance after a trauma, but we cannot pretend that we have the power to wipe bad things out of existence.
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In the quarters England face a stern test against Australia, who will be itching to wipe out the memory of their narrow loss to them in the 2003 final.
The newly extended enhanced incentive allows a non-farmer donor to use a conservation donation deduction to wipe out 50% of his gross income in any year, up from the normal 30% that is a permanent part of the law.
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Though punctuated-equilibrium theory as originally conceived has made few converts, the role of accidents in evolution is more widely appreciated, as asteroid collisions and nearby supernovae are recognised as hazards that can wipe out whole groups of organisms arbitrarily.
Then the volunteers will be given an antibiotic to essentially wipe out the population of M. smithii and the same parameters will be measured again, to see if eliminating the microbes will help change the patient's weight profile and alter their trajectory toward diabetes.
What is more, for wheat the increasing level of carbon dioxide that is changing the climate also makes photosynthesis easier, which should have increased yields enough to wipe out perhaps half of the climate-related loss (maize, which photosynthesises in a different way, is thus the bigger loser of the two in net terms).
Within a generation, he says, the influence of Spanish (distributed through Chilean television) has begun to wipe out the local tongue of the Easter Islanders.
Tourism is one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners, but the pictures from Lombok of rock-throwing protesters and gangs upending cars will surely wipe out a big hunk of that revenue.
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