Word: knocks
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Bernstein characterized reporting as "the best obtainable version of the truth," and he said, "there wasn't anything exotic about the Watergate reporting. To get to the truth you have to knock on a lot of doors...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team (1-0) hopes to knock off Cornell (2-0), last year's NCAA runner-up, in the Ivy League season opener tomorrow at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y., the Crimson will have to find a way to do what Corltand State and Army could not--stop Meyer...
...Crimson will be looking to knock offPrinceton and Yale April 29 in an attempt tocapture the Goldthwait Cup (the H-Y-P title) forthe first time since 1980. Harvard will alsofaceoff against Navy on the Charles, whiletravelling to row against Penn and Cornell April 8and Navy April...
...Data General may have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength of the new machines...
Many contemporary critics make "rather extraordinary assumptions" that improving the curricula of our schools will enable us to "knock out poverty, compete with the Japanese, [and] beat the Russians," Cremin said. Yet this mode of thinking "condemns [the schools] to failure before they even start;" we must instead debate "what we're going to ask our schools to do, realistically," he said...