Word: dim
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...most East Europeans, hope for meaningful change depends on substantial shifts within the Soviet Union; thus East bloc citizens are closely watching Gorbachev's moves. But the Soviets are unlikely to allow a wave of economic innovation to sweep through the East bloc, and prospects are even more dim for any significant moves toward greater political freedom or national independence...
...your battery is running low, go to Camera Settings, and then click on the Display menu to switch off or dim the backlights for your keypad and screen...
...meeting or hanging out with more people than I did before. Partying has been fun, but aside from my freshman year dormmates, the older and younger people with whom I spend quality time are the people I met through TCS. The ones who took me on dim sum runs are now the ones who call me up even though they’ve graduated...
...impending doom, the team was quietly serving notice, even amid the heartbreak of its 4-3 loss to Minnesota—a unit with its own absent stars complicating the road to a three-peat—that its prospects for next season are not all that dim...
...Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle...