Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Competition would also be lessened for Ma Bell's Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary-currently the target of a massive Government divestiture suit (TIME, Dec. 2, 1974). The bill might knock out some of the 400 independent telephone-equipment suppliers that have sprung up in the past eight years since the FCC first allowed non-Bell gadgetry, from entire corporate phone systems to replicas of antique French telephones, to be plugged into AT&T lines...
...concerns media consultants. "The imagery that candidates try to project does not work on the voters," says Patterson. He frets a bit about the overuse of imagery in the current campaign-for example, all the footage of Jimmy Carter traipsing through the peanut fields. The professor advises both parties: "Knock off the imagery and give the people the kind of information by which they can best judge the candidates...
...reason. They boarded buses and relieved all passengers of their valuables. They branched out to the Edsel Ford and the Lodge freeways, descending on stalled cars like army ants to rob, beat and rape terrified motorists. They devised a game called "Russian," in which one punk would knock on the door of a home while his confederates hid in the bushes; when the door opened, the whole mob would storm in, smashing furniture, beating the occupants and stealing. In late June, while partygoers at the Pontchartrain Hotel watched a fireworks display, 20 hoodlums swarmed in, snatching purses and overturning tables...
...Williams, a housewife whose husband is a marine engineer now at sea off Canada. "I was sitting with my sister and a friend, all of us apathetic-like so many others -behind our Venetian blinds. I say, 'I'm going out, and I'm going to knock on people's doors in Andersontown to see how many people feel just as we do.' " The three set off with note pads into an area long known as an IRA stronghold, and within hours, they had hundreds of signatures on a peace petition. "I was like...
...closing time nears, farmers can be coaxed to lower their prices even further. "Aw, c'mon, knock off another 50? and I'll buy double the amount," wheedles an old hand at the Detroit market. Many farmers do not put up much of a fight since they can pull in $1,000 on a good Saturday. Some of the farm folk even admit to a fondness for those odd city shoppers in their Lacoste shirts and Gucci shoes. Says Michael Temple, a grower from Brewster, N.Y., who peddles his produce in Manhattan each week: "The people here...