Word: dented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mercedes-Benz dealer in Houston. "Those guys in Washington are crazy." Consumers seeking to avoid the levy are switching to cars whose prices fall just below $30,000. Mercedes and Lexus sales have plummeted 27% and 10%, respectively, in the first quarter, but Acura dealers report no major dent in sales...
...left, the year comes just in time. The revolutions of 1989 having put a dent in the case for the degeneracy of the West, 1992 offers a welcome new point of attack. The point is the Origin. The villain is Columbus. The crime is the discovery -- the rape -- of America...
Even if the measure to reduce salaries is approved, it will shave only $36,000 off the budget--barely a dent in the current Massachusetts deficit of approximately $850 million...
...earthquake that rocked San Francisco almost two years ago did $160 million worth of damage to nearby Stanford University. This week tremors of a different sort threaten to rattle the elite Palo Alto-based institution -- and dent its coffers by as much as $200 million. On Wednesday, Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of a House investigative subcommittee, is to hold a daylong hearing on allegations that throughout the 1980s, Stanford routinely overcharged taxpayers for millions of dollars in research-related expenses...
...injuries, the only serious one is to the Saints' defender Ted Dent, who has a broken wrist, but "will be in there" for tonight's contest, according to Marsh...