Word: knock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already won the war and held the ticker-tape parade. And that's just the point. "There is a lot of room for disappointment," notes Tom McManus, a market strategist in Katonah, N.Y. "People have forgotten how easily things can go wrong." What if we don't quickly knock out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Other than a few diehard militarists, no one possesses the will to keep at it indefinitely...
Holmes, a family owned business which has owned the property in question since 1915, wants to knock down the existing building and construct a new, more expensive complex for mixed residential and commercial use. The proposed complex--composed of two different buildings--will be 120,000 square feet and 60 to 70 feet at its tallest point, according to Holmes's attorney James J. Rafferty...
...problems. Some other high-profile investors, including Loews Corp. chairman Lawrence Tisch and international investor George Soros, have big stakes in metals-mining operations. And Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been talking about either inflation or deflation at various times in the past few months. Either one could knock the stock market for a loop, and Buffett's highfliers probably would be among the hardest...
Harvard is the two-time defending league champion and the team everyone else is trying to knock off its pedestal. The Crimson currently owns winning streaks of 29 Ivy games--a league record--and 18 home games...
...have to be aggressive. That's Harvard," hesays. "At Swarthmore faculty knock on your door;here you have to knock on our doors, but we'llopen them."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerMOB SCENE: STACY M. ABDER '99 speakswith Gurney Professor of English and LiteratureDEREK A. PEARSALL yesterday after a lecture in"Literature and Arts A-12: The Story of Arthur."Students often try to catch their professors afterclass instead of venturing into office hours...