Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIM PURPLISH patches of sky that dropped back behind the Sierra Nevada were lost in the fast-moving lights of Reno. The streets were deserted when we got in about 8 p.m. but by that time the action was furious inside the casinos. The truck pulled over at an intersection and the driver said they'd be staying at the University of Nevada for the night and we were welcome to come but they couldn't guarantee a room. I was more inclined to keep on and another guy I hadn't really talked to decided to go with...
Bigger Inventories. Commenting on these rich returns, steelmen insist that prospects for the rest of 1975 are dim because the conditions that brought prosperity have changed drastically. Profits boomed last year partly because many users, including auto and appliance companies, piled up bigger inventories than they needed as a hedge against rising prices. Users also bought extra steel because they worried that a lack of coal caused by a miners' strike last year would bring a metal shortage. With production running at optimum capacity, efficiency at the mills increased and operating costs rose only slowly...
...theater's only meaningful triumphs are triumphs of illusion and not replication. After the curtain rises and the houselights dim, Harry Truman is no more real in theatrical terms than Hamlet or Willy Loman or Blanche DuBois...
Northeastern's Jim Walker shut out the Crimson nine yesterday on ten hits and the Huskies capitalized on two costly Harvard mistakes, upsetting the Crimson at Parson's Field in Brookline, to further dim their chances of repeating as the Greater Boston League Champions...
...conference closed, delegates promised to keep in touch. But the outlook for a full-dress global meeting-or any sort of oil amity-is dim. At week's end while visiting Washington, Saudia Arabia's petroleum minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, warned Americans that in the event of a new war in the Middle East, or even some vaguely defined "situation like war," the Arabs would not hesitate to impose another oil embargo on the U.S. and to extend it to Japan and Western Europe if they dared to share their supplies with...