Word: dente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police Chief Helio Saboya reckons that if his 12,000-member force were twice its size, he might be able to make a dent in the crime. But in a country grappling with a foreign debt of $112.4 billion, the budgets for local services are going nowhere but down. The policemen themselves, who know they are undervalued, lacking respect and easily corrupted, earn on average about $100 a month. "When you have a family and you're risking your life on the job, that's not much at all," says a young officer. His fellow patrolmen all have other jobs...
...attracted an ideologically diverse band of supporters, from conservative economists, who despise standard types of Government regulations, to environment-minded legislators, who are ready for a fresh approach to pollution control. Says Senator Timothy Wirth, a Colorado Democrat: "We're not going to be able to make a dent in environmental problems unless we can harness the forces of the marketplace...
Although Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence has made tenuring more faculty from within Harvard a primary goal, his efforts have yet to make a dent in the age-old system...