Word: knocks
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Then came His Honor's delayed pronouncement upon Darrow's motion to quash. Mr. Stewart had apologized to Mr. Hays and the courtroom tension had lowered, but when Defense-Counsel Malone heard the quasher denied he rightly forecast: "This is going to be a scrap from now on; a knock-down and drag...
...about 20,000 SEIU members who signed up and volunteered to make phone calls, knock on doors, drop literature. We had very few leave their homes [to campaign] in 2000. We just assigned some of our staff. This is the first time we asked rank-and-file members and paid them for the time away from their job to participate full time around electoral activity. That was a big change. We call them the SEIU heroes...
...that the yuan's rise will effectively boost consumer-spending power throughout the region, because imports will become cheaper and interest rates will tend to remain low. In this way, the reform of the yuan could usher in a major shift in the way the global economy works: the knock against Asia is that it saves too much and spends too little, while the U.S. spends too much and saves too little?leading to huge U.S. deficits that some economists fear could destabilize the world economy. If Asians begin to spend more, export-led economies everywhere will be less dependent...
...floor is the original floor from when we started playing basketball here [almost] 25 years ago,” Holden said. “We’ve been very fortunate in that, knock on wood, we haven’t had knee injuries...
...election is long over, but the campaign-style spinning persists. Last week, after Rove's name was divulged, the Republican National Committee engaged in a freestyle vitriol spew, attempting once again to discredit Wilson and suggest that Rove was merely trying to "knock down" a bum story. This was so much smoke and baloney--and all too typical of the persistent fecklessness on the part of the Administration and its allies when it comes to Iraq. Cheney continues to spin dross from the hard currency of military intelligence: he recently said that the insurgency was in its "last throes...