Word: dente
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...Barry Decker, director of clinical psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. "The staff takes an active role with patients. Anyone on the team might be able to set up such a rapport that they could play checkers with a catatonic the doctor couldn't even make a dent...
...under direct attack by the Japanese and by Ford's new $1,995 Maverick. In its first two weeks on sale, the Maverick has been selling briskly but somewhat off the pace set by the then-new Mustang in 1964. So far, it has made no appreciable dent in Volkswagen sales, but next year it will be joined by VW-sized cars now being designed by G.M. and American Motors...
...from school one day to discover that Mum (Diana Dors) has done herself in. Luci goes off to stay with one of Mum's old lovers (Keith Barren), a successful doctor whose opulent standard of living suggests that socialized medicine in Britain has not put much of a dent in private income...
...mountainous red tape that hampers government administration. Moreover, one of the root problems in South Viet Nam's government?corruption?is so pervasive that neither stern warnings nor the outright firing of half the 44 province chiefs and 91 district chiefs has made more than a dent, though the new men are generally admitted to be improvements. But to the extent that Thieu can finally expect his most urgent orders to be followed, he has managed to organize a functioning government. Says Tran Quoc Buu, head of the Vietnamese Labor Confederation: "A year ago, South Viet Nam was many states...
...dominantly Jewish areas ? partly be cause ghetto rents were cheap, partly because Jews were much less resistant to racial infiltration than other ethnic immigrant groups. In Chicago, for ex ample, Negroes have all but taken over neighborhoods that were formerly Jewish ? but have yet to make a dent in predominantly Czech, Polish and Ukranian communities...