Word: dented
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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 the matter of whether such crimes are growing more common, or even how widespread they are. The figures depend on the vagaries of local police reports that classify disappearances differently - sometimes...
...will benefit from retirees with time on their hands--he's long decaf. His fund is 50% driven by age-wave considerations, which are the main driver at the Muhlenkamp Fund. Those two funds are one-stop investments for the trend. Other funds guided by shifting demographics include AIM Dent Demographic Trends, Fidelity New Millennium, Morgan Stanley 21st Century Trend, Invesco Leisure and Phoenix-Seneca Strategic Equity Theme funds...
...seen in the final two games of the series, and in so many other memorable moments—Roger Clemens’ ejection in the 1990 American League Championship Series, the ground ball trickling through Bill Buckner’s legs during the 1986 World Series, the unlikely Bucky Dent lofting a lazy fly ball over the Green Monster in 1978, the late-inning collapse in Game Seven of the 1975 World Series—is well-known as the Curse of the Bambino...
...Pitchers went straight at Ichiro Suzuki last year, figuring to dent his gaudy Japan League credentials, and the Seattle Mariners' 27-year-old rookie rightfielder made them all pay. He sliced up the American League with a .350 batting average, got more hits (242) than anyone else in 71 years, and became only the second man ever voted American League Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season. No one found a way to neutralize him then, and now, just a season and a half after he hit the beach, American baseball is waving the flag...
...that opinion? Well, 60-80% of respondents do not know which countries are candidates for E.U. membership. A breach too far Britain's Inland Revenue service suspended its online tax filing system after security breaches allowed users to view other people's information. The problems put a serious dent in plans to make online filing for employers mandatory by 2010. War on spam Fresh from his battle with Merrill Lynch, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing companies that send spam, or unsolicited junk e-mail. Going even further in this latest global conflict...