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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concluding that, "If LoPresti is a progressive, I'm a monkey's uncle," Gerstell charged that LoPresti had misrepresented his State Senate record to win over liberal voters and knock her out of the race and then switched back towards the right...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: LoPresti to Face Travaglini | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...wristbands, sunglasses and a Panama hat, big Tim Brown doesn't look like a typical Santa Monica, Calif., beggar. And he's not: at 6 ft. 3 in., the former Golden Gloves boxer and current alcoholic is an intimidating presence as he accosts pedestrians and dashes into traffic to knock on car windows. "You have to make them scared enough so they'll give you what they have in their pockets," says Brown, explaining the activist panhandling philosophy that he says can bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Connoisseur of the Con | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

While upstart ventures may run circles around stodgy companies when it comes to rolling out fresh products, they often cannot protect their new markets against giant foreign conglomerates that can knock off their merchandise and mass-produce it at a much lower cost. American companies invented many of the basic technologies behind such products as videocassette recorders and robotics, but Japanese firms have captured the lion's share of the sales in those fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Vs. Small | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

James Baker (interrupting). That is so incorrect that I'd like to answer. What took us overnight -- we stayed up almost all night Wednesday, into the next day -- was an attempt to knock down rumor after rumor. That was a much bigger job than dealing with the underlying facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans3 16 2008 Bush: I Have to Wait and See | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...House moved to deflect criticism, adopting a compromise version sponsored by Reps. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.) and Tim Penny (D-Minn.). It would go ahead with the increase but only for April through June next year. Supporters said it would knock $30 million off the price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House, Senate Pass Drought Aid Bill | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

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