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And for this biographer, "one of the most tasteful campaigns in the history of modern American politics"--Eastwood's run, as a property-rights Republican, for mayor of Carmel, Calif.--was one in which the star likened a civic ordinance that would ban second kitchens to "Adolf Hitler knocking on your door."
Cutting the vice president every conceivable break--restricting the comparison to the years (1985-1992) when both men were in the Senate, and knocking out the years 1987, 1988, and 1992, when Gore's runs for president and vice president may have caused him to miss key environmental votes-- narrowed the Gore-Bradley gap to eight percentage points .
You can't turn around in a bookstore without knocking over a pile of (unsold) RPH books.
“We are usurping a natural cell system that is there for some other purpose, for knocking out endogenous gene function,” says Rossi.
"It's not like they are just sort of randomly whacking away and knocking off whatever happens to come off."