Word: dented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company is $100,000; thus the credit is of little use to the biggest companies that hire the most workers. Indeed, the Administration estimates that the credit will help employers of only about a third of the nation's labor force-not enough to make a substantial dent in the jobless rate...
...have become the bedrooms of the rich while the posh restaurants and shops are their playgrounds. "But even if all of the one thousand or so housing units were low income housing," says John Dobie, coordinator of the waterfront project for the BRA, "it would not make a significant dent in the city's housing problems...
...Howard," mumbled No. 1 ranked Heavyweight Contender George Foreman to his sometime broadcasting colleague Howard Cosell after dropping a unanimous 12-round decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to 3-to-l underdog Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging...
...economic affairs, an extraordinarily powerful position that will carry Cabinet rank. The basic job was originally created by Congress in 1962 as part of President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act. Until now, the men who have held the position, including former Secretary of State Christian Herter and Frederick Dent, have kept rather low profiles. By contrast, Strauss can be counted on to use the full power and prerogatives of his rank...
Weinrauch emphasized that Hastings House has readjusted goals from those of the old training schools. "We're not trying to turn these kids into wonder boys. We just want to make a dent--get them to work at a job, enroll in school. They mingle with regular kids in the community...