Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anderson had to be included in all debates or that Carter had to take on the independent candidate alone, just as he had. Hearing that Reagan was ducking, Press Secretary Powell said: "We think their duplicity is obvious in the extreme." The prospect for any more presidential debates is dim indeed...
...York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, a former Ambassador to India, warned that India would take a U.S. refusal to sell uranium as an infringement on its "sovereignty." Asked Illinois' Republican Charles Percy: "Do we want to dim the lights of Bombay and let the Soviets turn them back on?" Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, admitted that the question was a close one to call, but asked: "Isn't the President entitled to the benefit of the doubt...
Casey also believes that the stocks of small natural-resource companies are good for short-term speculation. He has a dim view of the current craze for buying such collectibles as artworks or beer cans. But he makes two exceptions: custom-made knives and antique Greek, Roman and medieval coins. Casey happens to collect both of these himself. He inveighs against investing in U.S. real estate, arguing that the market has already peaked. He advises people to rent, rather than buy, housing. One of Casey's most urgent suggestions: get your money out of the U.S. and into...
...more, Carter has grave weaknesses. Caddell insists that most voters still give the President high personal ratings, viewing him as honest, trustworthy, hardworking, "overall a good and decent man. That is very critical to the electorate." But he grants that many of the same voters take such a dim view of Carter's competence and job performance that "you would think they were talking about two totally separate people...
...confederates and apparatus. She specialized, rather charmingly, in the invisible mending of broken crock ery and in small gifts and chatty letters from a society of superhuman Masters who dwelt in Tibet. She was a gifted hyp notist of herself and others. When pressed, and if the lights were dim, she could pro duce spectral figures...