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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seek to eliminate multiple warheads within a fixed time, say 10 years." The root of the problem is similar to the dilemma encountered by the imaginary video game player. If you face an enemy with fewer launchers (ships) than you have, but more warheads (missiles), then conceivably he can knock you out in a first strike. Therefore, in a crisis situation, you could be tempted to destroy your enemy's small number of missiles. If your enemy knows this, he'll be tempted to shoot first. The process is essentially ad infinitum, hence destabilizing...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Video Defense | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...floor of a dormitory common room discussing, in an "uncannily lucid manner, what must be done about Rhodesia or Vietnam or Mississippi or Harlem." And young people identified with his "casual, rumpled eloquence" and followed him--to Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1963 and to New England to knock on doors for Eugene McCarthy...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: The Pied Piper of Liberalism | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

Dallas-based Dr Pepper (1982 sales: $516 million) is among the firms that could be squeezed. Dr Pepper has a near cult following in places like Waco, Texas, where it was invented in 1885. Waco's 100,000 residents each knock back an average of more than 300 bottles a year. But the company has enjoyed little success making Dr Pepper a national brand. The firm lost $4 million in the fourth quarter and finished 1982 with a $12.4 million profit, down nearly 60% from 1981. It hopes that two new decaffeinated Pepper Free brands will help push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hot Fight over Cold Drinks | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

Harvard--on the heels of Wednesday's opening-round 9-4 drubbing of Northwestern--will be looking to knock off a UMass squad that was the last to topple the Crimson, nine games ago. But as Harvard players and coaches argue, that 7-6 loss four weeks ago was perhaps the squad's worst performance of the year...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia | 5/13/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson readily admits it will take a stellar performance to knock off the 11-1-1 Minuteman squad. Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder says her underdog squad will need to take as many shots as possible against the defensive-minded UMass team and goalie Rita Hubner, widely considered the finest in the nation...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia | 5/13/1983 | See Source »

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