Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is Italian ice cream," my friends explain patiently. Nationality, however, is not the issue: common sense is. Knock out even one of the existing home grown ice cream stores, and we could revel in cultural diversity, but simply adding to an already glutted market is not contribution to the Square...
Despite scoring four goals, the freshman would take no credit for the victory. "The team played well as a whole, "said Marinello. "The balls were placed right in front of the goal for me to knock...
...endanger children, says Kenneth Williams, the attorney for Beverly Hills. "If people want to see something, they'll see it anyway," retorts Vahit Sapir, president of Starline Sightseeing Tours. "If they don't go by bus, they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand or Gregory Peck...
...Falklands war. Once the Super Etendards, which can fly up to 733 m.p.h. at low altitudes and have a radius of 530 miles without refueling, are armed with the Exocets, the Iraqis will be better able to threaten Iran's oil exports. Though the missiles cannot knock out the installations at Kharg island, which are well defended and have already withstood Iraqi bombing, the Exocets could be used to discourage vulnerable tankers from calling at the Iranian port. Without ever firing a shot, Iraq could diminish Tehran's main flow of income, thus crippling Iran's ability...
...these missiles would decrease less from 2.145 to 1500 Reducing the number of missiles (i.e. potential targets) more than the number of warheads compounds an already existent problem--the fewer separate targets each side has, with more warheads, the greater the temptation in a crisis for each to knock out the other. This is analogous to the "too many eggs in one basket" idea. Thus, while "build-down" would achieve a desirable reduction of destructive capability, it would do it in exactly the wrong...