Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) who co-sponsored the bill, and Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), whose committee will consider it, have indicated they feel the bill's chances for passage are dim...
...flies seemed insatiable. But today, with the increasing sophistication of the U.S. vacationist and the enterprise of the developers, the Caribbean offers something for everybody. In the bigger centers, new hotels provide the best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino, and the best floor shows east of Las Vegas. For those who yearn for nothing more than roughing it in total isolation, there are still remote, palm-fringed beaches. Or the middle-minded may want (and can get) a little of both, with some...
High rates and teeming exceptions are interdependent evils. What tax reformers want to do is attack both evils at once, cutting the rates drastically and simultaneously "broadening the base" by shrinking or abolishing many of the exceptions. On past performance, the outlook for such reform is dim: efforts at revising the income tax code have generally moved in the opposite direction. In 1954, Ways and Means concocted a tax-revision bill that New York Republican Dan Reed, then chairman of the committee, proudly called "the first overall revision of our tax laws which has ever been undertaken...
...matter how impressive the driver of a U.S. automobile looks, he sees badly. This is the dim view of Optometrist Merrill T Allen of Indiana University...
...panel so dark that a driver cannot read it at a glance. To check on his fuel or how fast he is going, he must rest his eyes on the pane for an appreciable moment. When he looks back at the road, his eyes have partly adapted from the dim light. The bright light from the road may dazzle him for a moment-and it may be the wrong moment...