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dement

(dĭ-mĕnt′)

tr.v. de·mented, de·menting, de·ments

1. To cause (a person) to become mentally deranged.

2. To cause (a person) to lose intellectual capacity.

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"The great thing is that we're building a really exciting partnership with our stores and store teams," Dement continues.

Aiming to be America's grocer: Target is doubling down its grocery efforts by remodeling stores, stressing perishables and listening to its "guests."

From 1992 to 1996 DeMent put out three well-received albums of original songs.

Sing the Delta

DeMent also notes that consumers are increasingly seeking out better-for-you pasta sauces when grocery shopping.

Let's Get Saucy

Despite Dement's world-class rifle shooting ability, when I met him he was much more interested in talking about his passion for bowhunting at Fort Benning, where the Marksmanship Unit is based.

Pigs & Patriots

Dement this but I love the old man and would still go after the largest windmill.

Sleep windmills: public health advocacy

Dement said the program was developed to assist Aviation Repair Technologies, an airframe and engine repair company that opened in Blytheville in October.

Blytheville College plans aviation program for 2010

Bridesmaids were Wendy Edwards, Lundy Foose, Rachael Haggerty, Mandi Dement Heaslett, Anderson Hillen, Susannah Morse, and Emily Anne Richards.

Goodman & Dement

In one, a basket of irradiated fuel elements was dropped during routine defuelling of Reactor 3, while a worker was also exposed to an irradiated fuel dement during refuelling of Reactor 2.

Fuel element removed at accident-prone Magnox reactor

But LXI may not be appropriate for all applications, says Dement. She agrees that LANs are useful in some situations, "but I think some other buses are better suited, for example in desktop or rackmount instruments." She expects to see more hybrid systems, with more than one bus.

A test pattern for the future: ease-of-use, connectivity, and instruments are defined by software

These findings are consistent with successful reports of the use of workers to collect health outcome and exposure information from their peers (Dement et al.

Exploration of work and health disparities among black women employed in poultry processing in the rural south

A new barrier dement for corotating twin-screw compounding extruders consists of a forwarding segment separated or sliced by an integral ring-shaped barrier segment.

Twin-screw mixing element includes a barrier

Earlier in the year, Richardson fired Betts, Dement, vice president of the Alumni Association.