Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another knockout for the White House, right? Well, no. Even as the testing issue has charged to the top of the President's fall agenda, the ranks of those charging behind him have oddly dwindled, as former allies splinter into bickering special-interest groups and switch to the enemy camp. Only seven states have signed on to the plan. In the House, an improbable coalition of social conservatives and progressive Democrats were at week's end on the verge of stripping a $279 billion education bill of all its national-test money. That forced the Administration to scramble...
...elucidate the gene's effects, Tsai used a recently-developed technique which allows researchers to selectively create "knockout mice"--mutant mice who are lacking in a specific gene. The researchers can then study the effect the loss has on the mutants by recovering the excited gene for study...
...Saints struck again to make the score 2-0, six minutes after the DiFrancesco tally, but this turned out to be merely a kick in the stomach instead of a knockout blow...
Time after time, Clinton failed to give the compelling moral arguments behind his policies, but Dole never delivered the knockout punch. Unless I missed something last night, come November 5th, Bob Dole will still be just...
Each candidate has scored at least one victory in the five previous debates, but pundits said the candidates now know each other too well to deliver any knockout punches...