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Dent was operating a royal charter for the British North Borneo Company — a charter similar to that of the EIC.
The first cuts the much-loathed annual license fee on cars from 2.2 percent of the car's value to a flat fee of $30, putting a $750 million a year dent in state and local revenues.
But, notes the NYT , there are still concerns: a government test has found that there are reliability problems, many due to limitations of battery life, and even if perfected, the technology would make no dent in gun suicide by rightful gun owners, or in the gun deaths lurking in the form of all the "dumb" guns already out there.
If one of them gets their wish it could make a big dent in what the Star estimates is a $110 million fortune.
Dramatic Poesy & Other Essays, John Dryden, Everyman's Library, J.M. Dent, 1912, 1950, p. 100.