Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message the Packwood episode sends to Capitol Hill is that women are willing to risk humiliation or career damage by speaking out against sexual harassment. Says Harriet Woods, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Anita Hill emboldened women. We're stepping forward now and saying, 'Knock...
Hillary went about her business with no gaffes, speaking to the Children's Defense Fund, sipping tea with Barbara (though not pouring it), and getting advice on raising her 12-year-old daughter Chelsea. Mrs. Bush suggested that her guest might knock down a wall to create one large bedroom. Barbara also recommended the National Cathedral School, where her daughter Dorothy went, because faculty members there know how to handle the children of high government officials...
...social goal in mind. They take the knowledge gained from basic science and try to apply it to solving a problem or creating a new technology. They may use their understanding of light waves to construct an optical computer or test a drug to see if it will knock out the AIDS virus...
...character whose bitterness would seem plausible, Cohen comes off as a virginal 17-year-old who cannot hold her end of the powerful dialogue. She is unconvincing when delivering brutal lines like "You middle-class Black bastard. Forget your social-working mother for a few seconds and let's knock stomachs. Clay, you liver-lipped white...
Almost. That strategy did knock out Tsongas, leaving only Jerry Brown to carry the Anybody-but-Clinton banner. Brown himself was no threat, but if he could have bloodied Clinton enough in New York and Pennsylvania, he might have kept many uncommitted delegates from joining Clinton, prompted some late- starting candidates to jump in, and kept alive the possibility of a brokered convention. At this point, however, Clinton proved the value of having developed and touted a comprehensive economic program. Aside from some other stupid errors, Brown pinned all his hopes on an eccentric proposal for a flat tax that...