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WAIVED. TROY AIKMAN, 34, three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback who has suffered 10 career concussions but no dent in his desire to play; by the Cowboys; in Dallas. If Aikman had been re-signed, his contract would have garnered him a $7 million bonus and an extension through 2007, a cost owner Jerry Jones felt outweighed the player's waning power...
...with these measure, then its interest in maintaining its reputation and its bank accounts should still be reason enough to comply. If students are injured on an illegally overcrowded shuttle bus, both the University and the driver could potentially be held liable, sullying Harvard's name and placing a dent in its financial reserves...
...third game in a row in which New Hampshire failed to make a dent on the scoreboard...
...that the Prime Minister himself is heading the anti-drug task force," says Yoshitaka Yamada, superintendent of the National Police Agency's Drug Enforcement Divison. Even so, Japan has been fighting this battle longer than most Asian countries and has never been able to eradicate or even seriously dent its methamphetamine culture. "The Japanese like stimulants because it suits their hard-working character," explains Yamada. Certainly, today, amphetamines are more widely available in districts like Tokyo's Shinjuku or Osaka's Nishinari than ever before...
...hardly makes a dent, however, in the annual bumper crop of dead computers. Every year an electronic trash heap nearly as tall as Mount Everest is tossed into garbage cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the U.S. alone--abandoned by users who have upgraded to faster and sexier machines--according to a report by the National Safety Council. Computers are ranked as the nation's fastest-growing category of solid waste by the Environmental Protection Agency...