Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People will know about me through what they read or what they see. They don't have to have somebody knock on the door and hand them a leaflet." And people almost certainly will be reading about and seeing a great deal of Hart, thanks to his surprise victory in New Hampshire...
...great year for us," Kramnaick adds. "It would be wonderful to knock off Harvard. Everybody at Cornell feels great when we beat Harvard, whether it's the number of Nobel Prizes, Rhodes Scholarships, Guggenheim Fellowships for the faculty or in hockey or basketball...
...fool." The hungry herds can be irksome as well as pathetic. The animals knock down fences and eat food meant for livestock. In Montana, the state distributes defenses to ranchers: dried hog blood is sprinkled around haystacks to repel deer, and wooden elk barricades, made by state prison inmates, are being erected. Even more is being done to feed the ravenous animals. Typically, winter kills 5% to 15% of the herds; this season more than half of some herds could die. Colorado, with 550,000 deer and 130,000 elk, may spend $1.6 million for emergency feeding. One morning last...
...billion) announced plans to merge with Columbus' BancOhio ($6 billion). Indus try Analyst James Wooden of Merrill Lynch estimates that by 1995 the U.S. will have only 25 to 35 national banking organizations. Citicorp, BankAmerica and the other leading financial-center banks remain relentless in their determination to knock down the remaining roadblocks to expansion across state lines. The financial giants sometimes lose a round or two, but they always fight back...
...public obviously wants candidates put through their paces rather than carried into office, but it is a hardening process without any real rules. So candidates develop rote answers to predictable questions, and interviewers try to knock them off balance. These impromptu answers become the real television discussion of the issues instead of the candidate's full speech that is never heard...