Word: dents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Where’s my Bill Buckner, where’s my Aaron Boone, Bucky Dent, or Grady Little...
...parts of the world presage a price correction in paradise? Surely, as hedge-fund managers find themselves without fat end-of-year bonuses because of the recent market madness, they'll shy away from acquiring luxury second homes. Gallmann of Exotiq Real Estate acknowledges that the financial crisis will dent demand, particularly in Bali where the real estate volume is higher than in Phuket. But he isn't too worried. "Look, I've been involved with Bali for 20 years and through that time we've gone through more than you can imagine, from the Asian financial crisis...
...State capitalism is hardly foolproof, of course. In nations with less sophisticated economic management than a place like Dubai, state control could simply revert to cronyism. Because they still rely on trade, the state capitalists are not immune to a global meltdown. Indeed, decreased Western consumer demand will dent China's economy as well as that of any that relies on exports. But the free-market autocrats stand in far better shape than the rest of the world. With their massive cash reserves, current-account surpluses and, often, capital controls, countries like China can better weather a downturn (China probably...
...Volt may make a small dent in America's dependence on imported oil, but that's all. Since 70% of U.S. electricity is made by burning natural gas or coal in power stations, the car basically swaps one fossil fuel for another. And because it's carrying a 400-lb. (180-kg) dead-weight battery, it may even wind up using more fossil fuel and costing more to run than a normal car - with no compensating reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Anton Ziolkowski, Edinburgh
...truly want to make a dent in teenage pregnancy rates, along with other social ills such as teenage suicide, teenage violence, and teenage alcohol and drug abuse, we must start to bring fathers back into more children's lives. In the 1960s just 6% of American children were raised without fathers. That figure is now 28%-some 20 million children. The rise in the number of households without fathers is a result of well-intentioned federal programs that offer women incentives to throw fathers out of their children's lives, to the detriment of the children. Children benefit from being...