Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest impetus-and opportunity-for reforming campaign financing in this century has come from Watergate. Yet 22 months have passed since the Watergate breakin, and nothing has been accomplished. Despite the Senate action, prospects for significant reform are still dim because of stonewalling by Wayne Hays (whose appetite for reform, in the words of the public lobby Common Cause, "is near zero") and the threat of a Nixon veto...
Quite a few conservatives have a dim view of Nixon's prospects. "He's not going to resign, and his credibility is going to worsen," complains Ashbrook...
...student alone must resolve the tension between the ideal of value and hope and the actuality of resignation. The prospects may be dim at Harvard...
...neat mathematical explanation. He calculated that if the galaxies actually have ten times more mass than has been seen through the telescopes of earthbound observers, the velocities of the stars would satisfy Newton's laws. Ostriker theorizes that the mass exists in invisible halos of small, dim stars, interstellar dust and gases, and perhaps even "black holes" -cadavers of huge, ancient stars, so completely collapsed under their own powerful gravity that not even light can escape from them...
...long way from the well-fed, well-clothed, well-read intellectual West to the life which Alexander Solzhenitsyn has lived, suffered, described and made live in his works. It is a long way from the city bookstore to the taiga of the Siberian north or the dim, stinking cells packed with starved and wretched men; from the quiet classrooms to the stark realities of a hunted existence in a totalitarian state. "Oh, freedom-loving 'leftist' thinkers of the West!" Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago." "Oh, leftist Laborites! Oh, progressive American, German and French students! For you, all this counts...