Word: knocks
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...extensive work on adaptation, Edward Diener has found two life events that seem to knock people lastingly below their happiness set point: loss of a spouse and loss of a job. It takes five to eight years for a widow to regain her previous sense of well-being. Similarly, the effects of a job loss linger long after the individual has returned to the work force...
...remains on the books, and employers can run additional checks--even years later--if they're considering promoting, transferring or firing you. You have the right to refuse a credit check, but employment experts say that would probably put you at a disadvantage in the candidate pool, if not knock you out of contention altogether...
...though, “we seem to be pretty healthy—knock on wood,” Donato said. “That’s a huge advantage that we didn’t have [in the tournament...
...cast to the wind. The past decade or so has been a time of virtuoso architects, not just Libeskind, Hadid and Isozaki but also Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and many others, all of them working in very different styles but with the common impulse to knock apart the familiar glass-and-steel box and put it back together in unheard of ways...
...adventures of the Baudelaire children were originally conceived in print. Lemony Snicket’s tales were the first to knock the popular Harry Potter series off the New York Times children’s best-seller list. Each of the ten installments in the series has made it onto that best-seller list, and the eleventh, most recent book was released in September 2004. The film version of Lemony Snicket is based upon the first three books: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window...