Word: knocks
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...Administration has not already done enough to damage the economy, Clinton's right-hand man Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has begun his push for what may be the knock-out blow to job creation. Reich has proposed to raise the minimum wage by 12 percent, to $4.75 an hour, and institute automatic annual increases...
...That score doesn't surprise me," Tomassoni responded. "[St. Lawrence] is a tough place to play, and they have a team that can knock off anybody...
...that the Texan and his followers will try to defeat them at the polls next year if they vote for NAFTA. That, says a White House official, is another reason why Clinton chose to take on Perot -- or have Gore do it -- in debate. If the White House can knock Perot down a peg, it will win the gratitude, and maybe the pro-NAFTA votes, of Republicans who would be afraid to tangle with Perot all alone...
Penn (8-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy), by the way, is heavily favored to knock off Harvard (3-5 overall, 1-4 in the league), although the conventional wisdom thinks an upset is not out of reach...
...stands in A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Colwin's idea is that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith...