Word: knocks
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...wasn't even around his father," Martin replied. And she went on: "Then my sister-in-law and my pastor helped me out. They gave me places to go online to learn the truth." Her sister-in-law is so committed to Obama that she has volunteered to knock on doors in her apartment complex. "She ran into two old guys who were for McCain, but all the rest were leaning toward Obama...
...uncomfortable historical parallels. "There was some idea that the financial sector was immune," he says. "It's like pinning your hopes on anything, whether it's textiles in the north of England or the car industry around Birmingham. It expands for a while and then it takes a nasty knock...
...global financial meltdown can be traced to an American export - the subprime mess - the U.S. will import the consequences. As the go-go economies of China and India hit the brakes, so too will demand for American goods and services. That will have a knock-on effect on jobs and the earnings of companies that rely heavily on international sales. (One small silver lining: as their economies have slowed down, China and India have decreased their consumption of oil, contributing to a fall in prices, both globally and at the pump...
...Nobody should frame male circumcision as some sort of panacea," says Vermund. "But it may prove to be one more tool in the toolbox...if you can add it to behavioral risk reduction, prompt diagnosis and access to care, it may be the combination needed to really knock the socks off the H.I.V. epidemic...
...work on a gene and when you knock it out you lose the whole throat, but you get a little worm and it actually is born and crawls around on the plate” Mango said. “The first time I saw the mutant phenotype I was just completely smitten...