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...close fights over the 13 appropriations bills that direct government check writers. Getting to the other side will require horse-trading and sweet-talking - and that will burn up political capital. Or, the president might have to wing out a veto or two, which will really put a dent in relations between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...personal interactions with undergraduates remain a drop in the bucket of nine faculties’ students. Office hours, Memorial Hall lunches, House dinners, study breaks—none make a dent in the image problem he has with College students...
...heads into its May confab Tuesday, the economy's prospects for dodging a recession are actually looking pretty good. On Friday, encouraging reports for April on retail sales (up), consumer sentiment (up) and wholesale inflation (pretty tame) put a dent in the unanimous expectation that the Fed heads would chop another 50 basis points, or a half-point, off the short-term interest rate that is the Fed's raison d'etre. Theoretically, Fed cuts take 6-18 months to work their magic in the economy (though the stock market "wealth effect" has in recent years been credited with speeding...
...Giving the lowest-paid workers a big raise will cause friction with the workers just above them on the pay scale, perhaps requiring a small raise for the second group as well. But if the University really wanted to increase its budget, it could—causing barely a dent in its $19 billion endowment...
...positive--pharmaceutical companies have been under increasing pressure to supply the developing world with cut-rate medicines. But no matter how much they trim prices on a combination-drug regimen that can cost $15,000 a year in the U.S., it's never quite enough to make a dent in countries where per capita annual income is only a few hundred dollars...