Word: denting
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...When his first book, The Twenty-Seventh City, was published in 1988, he was just 29. The intricate tale of a vengeful woman hired from Bombay to become police chief of St. Louis, Mo., it got good reviews and decent sales for a first novel but never made a dent in the national conversation...
...father in Cuba prompted charges of intolerance within Miami, and did little to endear the exile community to the wider American mainstream. And with pressure mounting in Washington for a reexamination of the four-decade-old embargo against Cuba that has failed to make any discernible dent in Fidel Castro's power, Mas Santos and other younger CANF leaders saw the Grammys as an opportunity to show the exiles on their best behavior - which was why they lobbied hard for the show to be held in their city in the first place...
...close fights over the 13 appropriations bills that direct government check writers. Getting to the other side will require horse-trading and sweet-talking - and that will burn up political capital. Or, the president might have to wing out a veto or two, which will really put a dent in relations between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...personal interactions with undergraduates remain a drop in the bucket of nine faculties’ students. Office hours, Memorial Hall lunches, House dinners, study breaks—none make a dent in the image problem he has with College students...
...heads into its May confab Tuesday, the economy's prospects for dodging a recession are actually looking pretty good. On Friday, encouraging reports for April on retail sales (up), consumer sentiment (up) and wholesale inflation (pretty tame) put a dent in the unanimous expectation that the Fed heads would chop another 50 basis points, or a half-point, off the short-term interest rate that is the Fed's raison d'etre. Theoretically, Fed cuts take 6-18 months to work their magic in the economy (though the stock market "wealth effect" has in recent years been credited with speeding...