Word: dente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made Bostonians forget about the 1975 World Series loss. They made everybody forget the nightmare of '78 and little Bucky Dent's pop-fly homerun...
Falling into third place is Melvin King, whose total community involvement is worthy of great respect and praise. But King lacks the pragmatism that is needed to make a dent in Congress. His utopian vision is not a realistic one for America of the late 1980s...
...failure of law enforcement to make any measurable dent in drug use has not resulted from a lack of effort. New laws have helped. A crime act passed by Congress in 1984 made it easier to seize the assets of drug dealers before | conviction. Federal agents last year relieved them of about $360 million. Local police are trying some innovative approaches. In Boston, New York City and Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including...
...national and international rivalry may bring car shoppers lower prices and a better selection of products, but it also threatens to put an ugly dent in Detroit's profit statements. Honda's sudden rise is an indication of how tough the renewed competition will be. The company has added a formidable new reputation for quality automaking to the traditional Japanese manufacturing virtues of durability, faithful service and moderate prices. This year a survey of more than 23,000 buyers of 1985 cars in the U.S. by J.D. Power & Associates, a California consulting firm, showed that Honda enjoyed the country...
...Louis Cardinals) score from first base on a single to win the 1946 world series, or seen its pennant-clinching runner (Luis Aparichio) stumble in the basepaths just before he would score, or let one of its ace hurlers give up a home run to Bucky Dent in the division-deciding game against the Yankees...