Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor has "an impeccable political career, and he has provided an excellent example for the community," says City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy. "In politics today, people often look at public officials with a dim view, but not at the Sullivans. They get involved in a lot of issues, they have influenced a lot of youngsters and certainly have given the impetus for young people to get into politics...
...continue to produce corn and soybeans like this," says Smith. "The Government can't be the final buyer of all the produce." Farmers know this too, but they are so swept up in the choreography of the harvest that they cannot dwell on the clouds of melancholy that dim the summer sunlight...
...been having its financial troubles of late. Profits for the Broadcast Group fell nearly 12% in 1985 from the previous year, and the outlook for 1986 is equally dim. With CBS-TV's weakening ratings and an industry-wide slump in ad revenues, company officials have projected a "substantial reduction in network profits" for the second half of this year...
...Paine, NASA's boss when we landed on the moon, came through the capital last week, echoing the same dim thoughts. NASA has tried to do too much with too little. Its $7.7 billion budget is not chicken feed. But it is not much; after all, we are spending $25 billion for subsidies that are not solving the farm problem. A NASA budget of $10 billion or even $20 billion, taken from other places, is perfectly parsimonious considering the dividends...
While one diver, armed with a hammer and chisel, began chipping away around a copper ingot, trying to loosen it from concreted sediment, another culled the bottom, scooping sand with one hand and drawing it into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container...