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Word: knockouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sunday could very well be the official passing of the torch. The young Patriots could deliver the knockout blow to the wobbling and wounded Buffalo Bills. The Pats are playing their best football in seasons, decades, probably ever...

Author: By Johnny C. Ausiello, | Title: Ho, Ho, Jose! | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

...loud knockout of an album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...every fight has to be won with a knockout punch. We're confident that we can win any bout on points alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula Is Still Controversial | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

With their minds thus concentrated, one thought dominated all those at the meeting: how to throw a knockout punch that would be, as one of them put it, a "Diller-killer." The notion of tossing in more cash or stock was quickly nixed as too costly. So were bigger warrants and increased dividends. After several such options were rejected, Greenhill turned to one of his whiz-kid investment-banking strategists, Michael Levitt, 35, who described a scheme he said would blow away Diller. The novel plan called for issuing a type of security, called a contingent value right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deal That Forced Diller to Fold | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...quite take your breath away. That's the downside of disciplined filmmaking. Even though the movie is quarried out of a substantial fictional trilogy by Alice Thomas Ellis, it plays more as anecdote than as a fully developed narrative. It feels somehow ephemeral -- a glancing blow, not quite a knockout. Still, emotional acuity, expressed with brisk intelligence, is not a common movie commodity, and it ought to be valued when you come across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bourgeois, But No Bore | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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