Word: dented
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Other organizations, including representatives from final clubs, said switching to cans won’t make a major dent in their budgets...
Harvard got the ball back, but made just one first down before the Crusaders forced them to punt. As it turned out, the punt was all Holy Cross needed to make another dent in Harvard’s lead...
...years in jail. Tandjung was convicted of using $5 million of state funds, earmarked for poverty relief, to finance the 1999 election campaigns of the Golkar party and the President at the time, B.J. Habibie. Although Tandjung said he will appeal, political analysts believe the conviction is likely to dent Tandjung's chances?and Golkar's?in the 2004 legislative and presidential elections...
...strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks to mass alerts that deputized thousands of citizens at a stroke, it has succeeded in bringing home a child or two. At least it's something. At least it makes a dent...
Exactly how big a dent is hard to know. The statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle whether such crimes are growing more common or even how widespread they are. The Justice Department estimates that the number of children taken by strangers annually is between 3,000 and 4,000. The figures aren't firm; they depend on the vagaries of local police reports that classify disappearances differently--sometimes as murders, sometimes as other things such as rape, depending on the circumstances of the crime...