Word: dente
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...Deutsche Telekom, it won't be Europe's first long-distance operator to unload a wireless unit. British Telecom last year spun off mm02, and France Telcom floated a piece of its Orange mobile unit. In addition, the T-Mobile carve-out will help Deutsche Telekom put a small dent in its $54.4 billion debt. Deutsche Telekom also wants to sell its cable assets; regulators rejected a $4.8 billion deal with Liberty Media to do so last month...
...Wall Street may be taking consumers - two-thirds of the economy - for granted. Unemployment is still high enough to dent consumer sentiment (which dipped in February, incidentally, for the first time in five months) and it'll probably keep going up until the recovery really is here. Will those with jobs be able to stay optimistic that they'll keep theirs? Have enough of the laid-off been coasting on severance packages to keep spending as if they had jobs? Does anybody have any more room left on their credit card...
Regardless, the young Britney will attempt to slow her inevitable commercial erosion with Crossroads. But Britney’s Madonna and ’NSYNC-singing, dancing, mother reuniting performance is unlikely to make a huge box office dent. However, even the comparatively unpopular Mandy Moore found a certain amount of success with the syrupy minister’s-daughter movie A Walk to Remember. In the end, though, it all comes down to Britney’s daring decision to attempt acting, and her poise as a representative of the New Millennium woman and as a role model...
...those who have a say in the affairs of the university. The film reports that then-President Neil L. Rudenstine threatened to resign before giving in to the demands of the protesters, and then it goes on to argue that PSLM’s demands would be but a dent in Harvard’s massive endowment. Occupation presents the protesters as engaging in an ideological battle against a reactionary and frustratingly immobile monolith. Previous attempts at negotiating with administrators, the film shows, were met by the apathetic drone of bureaucratic jargon...
Before the anthrax scare, Jupiter predicted that companies would increase their spending on e-mail marketing by 80% in 2001, but that only 3.5% of the new spending would come from direct-mail campaigns. He doesn't expect the anthrax scare to make a permanent dent in those numbers. And even if more poisonous letters emerge in the months ahead, they're not likely to wipe out direct mail. Says Blank: "People are just very attached to paper...