Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade barriers are clearly no answer to the industry's woes. But as the vital signs of a recovering economy at long last begin to work their way through business in the months ahead, steelmen need at all costs to avoid the sort of calamitous strike that would knock their companies flat as well as send imports leaping. Only after the industry has struggled back to profitability can it have any hope of solving its deeply rooted long-range problems. For now, at least, the challenge facing Big Steel is measured in months, not years...
...knew I'd get there this year," Mark Fusco said after the game. "But, I will be heartsick if I'm the one to knock Olson off the list because he can't play...
...reputation come hard. Not only are they cut up by rivals, and by columnists with opposing views, but their presence, in the limelight exposes traits in them that reporters seize upon. With Gerald Ford, a frequent target was his physical clumsiness; with Jimmy Carter, it was his "meanness." (The knock on Ronald Reagan, which White House publicists are trying to deflect, is "insensitivity" about the poor.) Carter is still in limbo: he roams the country flogging his memoirs, to a public not yet ready to resuscitate...
Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus chronicles the rise of the revolutionaries to save the Hebrews from Greek and Syrian interlopers in post-Biblical times, it's also a momentous enough piece to knock a chorus and audience out for the rest of the night, what with trumpets bells, and victory chants...
...second element that lessens the severity of the counterforce gap is the new American SLBM, the Trident II, which will be a seagoing missile powerful and accurate enough to knock out Soviet silos. In the sea-based leg of its triad, the U.S. already has a huge advantage over the Soviet Union in three respects: geography makes it far easier for the U.S. to get its subs to sea and keep them there; U.S. subs are much quieter than Soviet ones and therefore harder to track and destroy in a conflict; and American SLBMs are more numerous, more accurate...