Word: dented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haiti's instability doesn't dent U.S. security. If Clinton were more confident of his leadership, he could offer a straightforward, unadorned justification for intervention, a course that would acknowledge pursuing a sympathy rather than an interest, a preference rather than a need. By building on the junta's brutality, which he mentioned last week, Clinton could have said something like this...
...report proposes that house committees get more involved in the council. It also suggests that students other than council members be allowed to participate in faculty-stu- dent committees...
...adviser to the agency on ozone issues, told reporters. On the other hand, he said, the ozone level could recover within a half-century. The report, the work of 226 scientists around the globe, explains that international efforts to reduce the use of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, have made a dent but take a few years to clear...
Some would say he was also a very good predator. Stories of Diller's temper and hauteur still raise hackles around many a Hollywood campfire. It's said that Diller, furious at Fox programmer Stephen Chao, threw a videotape past Chao, making a dent in the wall; Chao framed the dent. Thus does Diller, whose stare can go through you like a power drill, inspire passions and animosities. Says a studio executive: "People who have worked for Barry and then escaped have a secret handshake. They consider themselves lucky survivors, like the Schindler Jews...
Thesis writers and other book-hungry students should still be able to check out books normally because the bar code on the ID that is scanned at checkout accesses the library's stu- dent database, which has been changed toaccount for the expirations...