Word: dim
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...face of brutal mutilations of American civilians in the Sunni triangle and the unexpected success of insurgencies in the South last week, America’s nation-building effort has stalled. And the prospect of Iraq becoming a self-sufficient and stable society in the near future is dim...
...China's deployment of missiles across the Taiwanese Strait. He has also said that if he wins, he will revise Taiwan's constitution, a step that Beijing fears could move Taiwan closer to formal independence. That is why Washington, seeking to cultivate relations with China, has taken a dim view of Chen's initiatives. President Bush warned him in December not to "make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," implying that he should reconsider the referendum. Chen has ignored him. But China may have its own problems in responding to Chen. Any revisions of the Taiwanese constitution would probably...
...dim lighting made it kind of a sleepy gym,” McKiernan said...
DIED. JULIUS DIXON, 90, rock-'n'-roll songwriter; in New York City. In 1955 Dixon scored his first hit single with Dim, Dim the Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere). He penned songs for several bands but remains best known for the Chordettes' buoyant 1958 rendition of Lollipop...
Even his friends await Aristide's homecoming with mixed emotions. Aristide took a dim view of U.S. interference in the hemisphere: many of his sermons attacked the U.S. government--though never, as he liked to point out, "the American people." After hearing so much from him about the evils of U.S. policy, it is hard for his disciples to understand why he would agree to return hand in hand with the U.S. military ... Despite the difficulties ahead, the returning President firmly believes he can help democracy take root in Haiti. "Not one minute of this has been easy," he says...