Word: dente
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...short periods of time. Since 9/11, owners of these facilities have feared that a few such attacks, indeed even just one, would keep customers away long enough to bring bankruptcy. The financial cost of adequately protecting the thousands of such venues, assuming that was feasible, would put a large dent in profits or tax revenues. The effects of such attacks on the U.S. economy could be devastating. For bin Laden, who has called upon his followers to destroy the American economy, such considerations surely fit with the goal of sweeping away the superpower to make way for a global theocracy...
...hoping to get can make a big difference,” he said. “No, we’re not going to be able to prevent every voting problem that happens, but I think we’re going to be able to make a big dent...
...year removed from second-place finishes in each of the five relays held, each time behind Princeton, the Crimson continued to struggle to make a dent in the freestyle team races, twice placing third...
Newsom's daring actions may end up being merely symbolic. Sacramento officials say they won't accept the licenses on bureaucratic grounds. But that doesn't put a dent in the happiness of those newlyweds under the rotunda. And Newsom? "My reward at the end of the day is that I can live with myself," he says. "I did my job and had a conscience. That's more powerful than being mayor...
...from 1987 through 1996, for more than 400 companies in 21 industries to yield a sample of 3,168 firm-years. The bottom line: having a COO lowered returns on assets an average of about 1%. For a company with $1 billion in assets, that means a $10 million dent in annual profits, according to the study's lead author, Donald Hambrick of Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business. Says Hambrick: "The two broad possible explanations are that the CEO-COO duo is an inferior arrangement or that it is a sign of an inferior CEO." Our guess...