Word: dente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with its modest 9-9 record, Harvard looks to mold its young squad into league champions and make a significant dent in the NCAA tournament...
...could sense Ehrenreich's motivation but no dent in sociobiology. She overlooks the most striking evidence ("normal frequency" of intercourse: daily to weekly), which shows that the human sexual impulse is coupled to pleasure. It appears reproductively senseless only at the individual level but is probably the ace that ensured Homo sapiens' domination of the planet. (Hinduism recognizes this connection as one of the prime goals in life.) Familyists should welcome it as a great elixir for the daily tussle and tumble inevitable in marital life. This synergy between reproduction and pleasure explains the huge social benefit a family offers...
Four years ago, doctors came up with the first treatment to make a dent in the spiraling death rate. Today that treatment works for some patients, but it's not clear how long the results will last. And still there is no cure...
...going back to Main Street because they're tired of the Muzak and have finally realized there's nothing in those bath shops they really need, you won't be happy. Retail analysts say mall business in general is grand and that Internet shopping won't make a significant dent in it for at least five years. But they also see a future with fewer malls, as stronger, bigger ones squeeze out the dinosaurs...
...critics mostly raved (though TIME's Louis Kronenberger complained about its "inadequate artistry" and "sometimes stolid prose"), and the play went on to win both a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It catapulted Arthur Miller to the top rank of American playwrights and has made perhaps a firmer dent in our consciousness than any other drama written for the American stage. So when the play celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with a new Broadway production, it's not just an occasion for theatrical nostalgia but time for a question: Why does this depressing, sometimes overwritten, painfully familiar play...