Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even those who support the Reagan program are becoming impatient with the budget process. Says Itek Corp. Chairman Robert Henderson, whose high-tech optical company anticipates "significant" first-quarter losses: "I didn't expect that we would knock out the deficit overnight, but I would like to see some indication that we are really working...
...except her in the house. To no avail. They demand that she give them the key to the upstairs flat. She says the owner is on a trip to the U.S., but they are not convinced. Three of them go back to their truck, get axes and saws and knock the steel door off its hinges. There is no one inside. My four-year-old son is terrified. Over and over again he says, "Bad soldiers . . . bad soldiers...
Many of Armani's things for women are too unusual and finely detailed-and thus too expensive-to knock off, but his jackets have been endlessly copied. "You can copy the look," cautions Dawn Mello, executive vice president of Bergdorf Goodman, "but you can never copy the fit." Indeed, Mello's description of wearing an Armani suit goes past simple enthusiasm or even shrewd salesmanship; it sounds like a recollection of a heavy first date. "Armani really put women in suits," she says. "He emancipated them, in a way. A man expects his suits to be very well...
Although the Wisconsin hockey team did knock the Crimson out of the playoffs by a considerable margin (10-4 in the two-game series), and the fans adored nearly every minute, the Harvard hockey team certainly wasn't humiliated in Madison...
...military aid or covert action in Central America. In practice, this would make covert action all but impossible. Said Tsongas: "We're on the verge of a kind of 1950s intervention policy. The domino theory does work, but we're going to be the ones to knock down that first domino" by driving Central American countries into the "Cuban embrace...