Word: knell
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...while Turner was killing the Crimson at one end of the court, the cagers were clanging their own death knell at the other...
Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski may have sounded the death knell when he announced last week that the House Ways and Means Committee, which he heads, would postpone "temporarily" any further sessions on tax reform. The 36- member committee has tinkered with the President's package, hoping to come up with a proposal that could win House approval. It is now virtually impossible for a tax-reform bill to pass the House and reach the Senate by Nov. 1, the deadline designated by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Thus Congress is not likely to tackle tax reform this year...
...scope of Reagan's support among all groups and regions is profoundly disquieting to Democrats. It could in fact be the death knell for the Democratic majority forged during the New Deal. But does it herald a new era of Republican dominance? Even though 38% of the electorate still call themselves Democrats, the exit polls did show an increase in the percentage of voters identifying themselves as Republicans, from 27% in 1980 to 32% in this election. Perhaps more important, more of those under 24 now use the Republican than the Democratic label...
...President's returns streamed in, the network commentators sounded a Democratic death-knell. NBC's Tom Brokaw confidently reported that Tuesday's impressive results confirmed a realignment of the political parties...
...Koppel denies that the program is meant to be educational. "I assume our viewers are intelligent." Koppel says. "But like Mark Twain said. All people are ignorant about some things.' But to admit that 'Nightline' is an 'educational program' would be to sound its death knell. Television generally does a pretty lousy job with information and--God forbid--education...