Word: dente
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...Party, advised people in their 60s and 70s to "stay home and rest" instead of voting. As penance, Chung resigned his post as his party's campaign head and went on hunger strike. Yet in a land where political haplessness is increasingly the norm, his gaffe apparently failed to dent the party's standing. Instead, voters last week tripled the size of the Uri Party delegation, to 152, enough for a majority in the 299-seat assembly that has been dominated by a conservative Old Guard for more than four decades...
Cornell put a dent in Harvard’s lead with a Melissa Hientz three-run shot in the bottom of the fifth, bringing the Big Red within five, but the Crimson’s big bats had an immediate response...
...helps track unusual betting patterns. But in a report last week, a British government committee agreed that professional "layers" should be registered. Earlier this month, search engines Yahoo and Google said they would stop carrying banner ads for online casinos, fearing legal reprisals by U.S. prosecutors. Will such restrictions dent the market? After all, the WTO ruled last month that the U.S. cannot legally prevent its citizens from...
MUHLENKAMP: We know some people who regret buying tech stocks. We don't know anybody who regrets putting money in their home. If mortgage rates got to 7%, it would make a dent. But rates now are at 5.5% or so, and long-term studies show that this is a normal mortgage rate. We don't expect housing starts to keep growing. But the publicly traded builders are taking market share from the neighborhood man with a hammer. That has become their edge, and these are companies that sell for nine times earnings...
...TURNER is already a goddess. But ISMAIL MERCHANT'S casting of Turner as a Hindu deity in his upcoming film The Goddess has outraged some British Hindus, who plan to picket the movie. (Did they learn nothing from protests against The Passion of the Christ, which did not exactly dent ticket sales?) Having Turner play Shakti--the personification of a female divinity who wears a necklace of men's skulls--reduces the goddess to a "musical joke," says a Hindu group. Of course, some who saw Turner's last try at a dramatic role in 1985's Mad Max Beyond...