Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play that may have survived last Wednesday's crushing sudden-death loss to Dartmouth. Now 6-10-3 in ECAC Division 1 play (7-12-3 overall, in 13th place, five spots out of the playoffs, Harvard can finish at best with an 8-10-3 record if they knock off St. Lawrence and Clarkson on the road this weekend...
...people are closely watching the floundering campaign of Sen. Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.), who got off to a late start and for whom anything less than third place in either state could spell disaster. A poor showing by Baker would excite Bush; the former ambassador hopes to knock his main moderate challenger out of the race early, Butler says...
...Democratic side, the Carter forces briefly had hoped-perhaps unrealistically-to knock Kennedy out of the race in Maine. When they failed to do that, they became worried about New Hampshire. Patrick Caddell, the President's pollster, feels that the local polls showing Carter way ahead cannot be trusted. His own surveys indicate that the President's lead is narrowing fast. Carter's staffers are sure that his failure to campaign is hurting him in a state where voters are accustomed to looking a candidate in the eye. Every night, White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan...
...weapons and first-strike strategies. The relative stability of reliance on deterrent weapons--those used only in the event that an enemy launched weapons first--will be lost, and a much less stable situation where one must attempt to "out-guess" a potential enemy, firing first in order to knock out enemy weapons before they can be used, will take its place. Not only will the cost of the new weapons systems be staggering, but no new security will be gained. Indeed, at this point, with 30,000 nuclear warheads held by the United States...
...have three weeks to identify safe energy sympathizers in New Hampshire," Birmingham said, adding, "All we have is people power. We have to door-knock...