Word: dimly
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...Middle American (conceiving that term in the economic, not cultural or social sense) there is no choice in the presidential election. On the Nixon side there is a caste of the superprivileged: on the McGovern side, a caste of the underprivileged. The "apathy" which you allude to reflects a dim awareness on the part of the Middle American that he has been given a choice between death by fire...
...encouraged patients to look elsewhere for care. Four of the clinic's seven doctors and all of its social workers have quit out of fear and frustration. Though last-minute negotiations have stopped the other professional staffers from following, the center's chances for survival are dim...
...Dim and dark, yet within...
Nevertheless, the prospect for any quick surge of U.S. exports to Japan remains dim. The Japanese eagerly buy American industrial raw materials-coal, steel scrap and lumber-but the obstacles they put in the way of foreign manufactured and consumer goods are still high. The average Japanese tariffs on finished consumer goods have been lowered from a prohibitive 28% in 1961 to 12% now-still far above the average of 7.7% maintained by most other industrial nations. In the past eight years, Tokyo has cut from 155 to 33 the number of quotas that it maintains on imports...
Also, the CAB expects to issue soon a regulation permitting passengers without any affinity to organize and fly cut-rate anyway, if they book their flights six months in advance. This would greatly dim the appeal of the trips offered by fly-by-night body brokers...