Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hunger for consumer, mortgage and corporate credit will also ease, causing interest rates to fall. The prime rate on loans to big companies should move down from a peak of 12½% this spring to 9½% a year from now. The general lessening of demand should make a dent in inflation. TIME'S economists expect consumer prices, which surged 9% last year, to go up 8.3% this year and 6.8% in 1980. That certainly would not amount to victory over inflation, but at least the trend would be favorable...
...Communist pledge to cooperate in a three-year government economic recovery plan, for example, had been attacked by workers who felt that they would suffer from new austerity measures and wage restraints. Similarly, the Andreotti government's failure to make a dent in unemployment, which rose from 1.5 million to 1.7 million in 1978, caused the jobless to criticize Berlinguer for not pushing through employment programs...
...operating against the warehouse and loading areas, the beaches and airstrips. The traffickers have already suffered major injury because they can't move the marijuana out and it's losing its potency." But there is no evidence yet that the crackdown has made a major dent in the flow of grass...
Flom, a small, slight man with thinning gray hair and a forehead wrinkled in a perpetual look of surprise, seems to prefer representing raiders. He has also directed skillful defenses, notably his "Jewish dentist" defense in 1975 for Stern-dent, a manufacturer of dental equipment under attack by Magus Inc., a holding company that is 10% owned by the Kuwait Investment Co. Flom sued Magus for not disclosing that many of Stern-dent's customers were Jewish and might not buy from a company partly owned by an Arab government agency. The argument was such a successful public relations...
...fifty odds on avoiding a downturn. The others all agree that there will be a recession, but that it will be mild and brief, lasting only two or three quarters and at worst dragging real G.N.P. down at an annual rate of only 1% to 2%. All this will dent inflation-but only a bit. To ensure that inflation will continue to decline even after the recession ends, economic growth will have to be held below the old 4% norm for some years to come...