Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid entangling the stimulative tax cuts in a knockdown congressional fight, Carter offered a list of reforms much shorter than the one he was contemplating last fall. Among the reform measures retained in the package are the elimination of individual itemized deductions for sales and gasoline taxes; personal property levies on cars, furniture, etc., which only a few states impose, would also be made nondeductible. Other proposals call for tightening up on medical expense deductions and imposing taxes on unemployment insurance payments, now exempt, collected by individuals making $20,000 or more a year...
...skill can totally compensate. As for MacLaine, she comes to see that she cannot live through her daughter the life she did not choose. Both get a chance to work out their previously unspoken grudges, on the night of the girl's première, in a knockdown fight on the theater steps...
...this knockdown performance he was rewarded with the outstanding meet performer award, along with Northeastern's Ron Chambers...
...knockdown, dragout encounter at the IAB last night, Yale handed the Crimson cagers their tenth consecutive loss...
...threat of a strike that could disrupt the economy, but veteran bargainers on both sides rate the chances of settling without a strike this year as the best in memory. Main reason: the industry is booming, its workers are prospering and neither side sees much to justify a knockdown fight...