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...lack of competition may be only temporary. If the industry succeeds in shedding its snake-oil image, more upscale entrepreneurs are likely to rush in and take advantage by starting new channels. TV retailing won't make department stores obsolete just yet, but it might make a dent in the mall business...
...This is one of the most successful infiltrations of white-supremacist groups to date," said Terree Bowers, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, whose office will prosecute most of those arrested. "We think it will put a severe dent in the skinhead movement in Southern California...
...Places You'll Go! and the Brady Bunch kitsch revival certainly put a dent in that theory. There was even an underground movement to make Ernie our Class Day speaker. And Michael Landon, whose "Highway to Heaven" didn't score too highly with viewers our age, brought back many fans for his last appearance on "The Tonight Show" shortly before his death...
...guess--perhaps sleeping in, or working on other classes, perhaps simply spending the hour laughing at the saps who were foolish enough to actually show up to class. After a few minutes of "review," there is little doubt that whatever they were doing, their absence will scarcely make a dent in their performance...
...business" most Serbian artillery in Bosnia at "virtually no risk" to U.S. pilots. True enough, Aspin and Powell told Clinton, but that would accomplish little if the Serbs just moved their artillery. Strategically, they advised, even a far-ranging bombing campaign in Bosnia might not make much of a dent in the thinking of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, deemed the ogre behind the war. "The pain has to extend to Belgrade to have much effect," said a military planner, a step Clinton is not now inclined to take...