Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disturbing, then, about the MX vote was the Reagan Administration's success in persuading a majority of lawmakers to pursue the goal of a strong defense blindly. The faults of this particular multiple warhead system are many and well-documented, chief among them being its vulnerability to a knock out strike. But the President made clear through his no-holds-barred lobbying effort that he was less concerned with the quality of the system deployed than just deploying something to demonstrate firmness to Moscow and its Geneva delegation. Similarly, a refusal to undermine our negotiators at arms talks led congressmen...
...range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which deal mostly with weapons deployed in Europe. Tower and Karpov will square off over intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Kvitsinsky and Kampelman will confront each other on the touchiest issue in the negotiations, space weapons. The Soviets hope to knock out President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, while it is still in the research stage. The overall American posture, by contrast, is to reduce existing offensive weapons and worry at a later date about placing limits on space-based defensive systems that...
...along with forest products and telecommunications goods and services. This sector--or industry-wide--approach was a sharp shift from the previous goal of trying to gain entry on a product- by-product basis, a narrowly focused tactic that was getting nowhere. Says one official: "As soon as we knock down one clay pigeon, another pops up. We have got to knock them all down...
Leaded gas, which has been used for decades to prevent engine knock, still accounts for some 45% of all gasoline sales. But lead poisoning can damage the brain, liver and kidneys, particularly in children. Recent studies have linked lead to high blood pressure. In ordering refiners to get most of the lead out, the EPA estimates that the cutback could prevent some 5,000 heart attacks and 1,000 strokes next year alone...
...enormous energy released by a nuclear explosion can be converted to powerful X rays by rods projecting from an atomic device in the microsecond or so before the rods themselves are vaporized. The beams are so powerful that they need no "dwell time" at all; they could knock out a missile or warhead instantaneously. Less precision is necessary in aiming them; an X-ray laser "beam" as wide as two football fields would have great destructive power...