Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel believes that the lag effect of the extremely tight money policy pursued by the Federal Reserve in the second half of last year will "knock a few billion dollars off the G.N.P. in 1972." Despite these caveats, most board members agree that the economy should pick up strongly in the months ahead-if only because of the stimulative effects of the Administration's big election-year budget deficit. One early sign: the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 5.9% last month...
...placed a call to the team locker room to suggest a play. "Throw the ball down the center," Nixon said, "but make sure there's lots of spin on it so that you get a right hook." Dake was unable to explain why this had failed to knock down pins. "But it's the thought that counts," he added...
...break for Guns & Butter came when Lennie Sogoloff, of the renowned club Lennie's on the Turnpike, agreed somewhat reluctantly ("Well, it doesn't knock me on my ass," he said) to let them back up the James Cotton Blues Band for one night. That night G & B stacked the house with relatives, friends, anybody they could convince to pay the cost of admission. "They started yelling for us to do encores before we even came on." Lyons recalled. Sogoloff wasn't fooled, but kept them on another night to see how they'd do. They did well enough...
...92nd Congress returns for the second session, its Democratic leaders face a delicate task. They share a visceral determination, strengthened by the personal presidential ambitions of half a dozen Senators, to knock Nixon out of office. Even such usually cooperative politicians as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills resent what they consider Nixon's highhandedness with Congress. They want to do him in. But they dare not appear merely as obstructionist, and must give their party a positive congressional record on which to run. They know only too well...
...present rentals of $13 million a year that the British pay for their bases. Since Malta is no longer strategically vital, London is willing to pay an additional $11.7 million and no more. To underscore British determination, Whitehall last week flew in a party of expert "dismantlers" to knock down its facilities. Evacuation began of 4,994 British dependents aboard R.A.F. VC-10s at Luqa Airport...