Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boxing world received a shot in the arm with the return of Mike Tyson to the ring. Iron Mike didn't disappoint in his debut, recording a first-round knockout against a marginally-worthy opponent, Peter McNeely...
Lavishly billed "OUT on the Edge 1995," this year's Festival of Lesbian and Gay Theater, sponsored by The Theater Offensive, features two intensely personal stories as its centerpieces. Peggy Shaw's You're Just Like My Father is a knockout slice of lesbian life while Craig Hickman '90 gyrates his way into the trials of growing up black in skin and ornaments. Written by its performers, the pieces explore the one-person-show format, to polar degrees of success...
...situation faced by the nation's hospitals [MEDICINE, July 17]. In the midst of their economic struggle for survival, Congress has proposed reducing the growth of Medicare payments for patient care. While such a blow would diminish the financial strength of all hospitals, teaching hospitals could face the knockout punch of additional targeted reductions in Medicare's support for their medical-education activities. The triple whammy of the competitive marketplace, reduced Medicare reimbursements and significantly decreased federal support for medical education and research could force teaching hospitals to abandon their academic commitments. There is danger of a new kind...
After the debate, Will carried his dual role a step further. He wrote a column heralding Reagan as the decisive winner of the debate. However, the consensus among others was that while Reagan was effective and hardly the bomb thrower portrayed by the Democrats, he was not a knockout puncher...
With so much at stake, a knockout is improbable. And like most classic heavyweight fights, this bout may well be decided in the final rounds...