Word: dents
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...Giving the lowest-paid workers a big raise will cause friction with the workers just above them on the pay scale, perhaps requiring a small raise for the second group as well. But if the University really wanted to increase its budget, it could—causing barely a dent in its $19 billion endowment...
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...
...positive--pharmaceutical companies have been under increasing pressure to supply the developing world with cut-rate medicines. But no matter how much they trim prices on a combination-drug regimen that can cost $15,000 a year in the U.S., it's never quite enough to make a dent in countries where per capita annual income is only a few hundred dollars...
...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...