Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public school students. A delegation of parents from Pinellas County, Fla., showed up in Washington to ask Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to stay a district court busing order. In light of the Supreme Court's consistent record of upholding busing plans, there was only a dim chance that the appeals would succeed...
MOST men and women standing at a bar have the option of staring at the rows of bottles stacked behind it or craning to watch a TV set in a dim corner. Now Bronwen Corp., a brokerage house in Washington, D.C., has opened a restaurant called the Exchange, where a dedicated drinker can down his martini while watching stock market quotations flicker past his eyes on an 8-ft.-wide illuminated Ultronic Systems quote board in back of the bar. Says Harry Hagerty, one of three young partners in Bronwen: "I've always felt that the man interested...
...wide stretch of water between Alaska and Siberia. "This would be highly beneficial for Siberia," according to Seaborg, "because the cold Arctic waters bathing the eastern coast would be replaced by warmer Pacific water. Eastern Siberia might then be opened up to agriculture." Prospects for a Bering dam are dim, however, because it would span international waters and require the approval of other nations. That approval, especially by the U.S., is unlikely; the cold water would have to go somewhere, and Western scientists fear that the southerly flow of frigid water to the eastern U.S. would increase, possibly producing...
...rights movement by giving it such currency, the $2 bill has a somewhat unsavory history. It once symbolized bought political votes, was a favorite of counterfeiters who liked to turn it into a $20 bill, and often spent much of its time at the race track. In a dim, pre-inflationary time, it was widely favored as the medium of exchange at bawdy houses...
These are the words of James Schall, 43, a crew-cut Jesuit priest and teacher who takes a dim view of ecology, American style. The environmental movement that has captured the nation's imagination, says Schall, who divides the year between Rome's prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of San Francisco, is really little more than heresy...