Word: knocks
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...guilty verdict in one of the corruption cases might knock Berlusconi out of office, though he has the right to appeal and try to hold on to power. Short of that, how else might all this end? Berlusconi's allies have increasingly alluded to a behind-the-scenes political coup they say is being orchestrated by a cabal of so-called poteri forti (strong powers) of Italian business and cultural élites who are allied with magistrates and foreign governments that are worried that Berlusconi has become a liability for political and economic stability. But even if there were such...
...earning around 20% less. Why? What can happen is that workers often cannot find another job in their same industry. If a worker had accumulated skills that were specific to that industry, then can't find a job in that industry, those skills lose their value. So that may knock down workers for a long time because it's difficult to reaccumulate skills. That can explain a third to half of the losses. (Read "The Truth About High-Frequency Trading...
...year living there. Julia and Valentina are 20 years old, ash blond, pretty and skinny. They're bright, aimless, dreamy college dropouts who live at home. They don't have jobs. They're virgins. At night they snuggle together in the same bed. One has a powerful urge to knock their identical ash blond heads together...
...confidence that proves Michael Cera does not have a copyright on bright, inward, fretful, sexually underemployed young men, Columbus locks himself in his room, safe from all contact, human and other. So the sudden, desperate door-banging of the hot chick from the next apartment (Amber Heard) is the knock of both opportunity and apocalypse. She's been attacked by a ravaging zombie and needs the shelter of Columbus' arms. "Set aside the feverish homeless cannibal," he muses in a voice-over, "I'm living in a dream...
...sophomore defender Lindsey Kowal, a member of the United States Under-23 Women’s National Team, dove to the ball just in time to knock it away...