Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, that prospect seemed increasingly dim as M.P.L.A. forces, equipped by a massive Soviet airlift of arms and equipment and aided by some 7,500 Cuban soldiers, routed the F.N.L.A. in one battle after another on the northern front. The most important town to fall into M.P.L.A. hands was the provincial capital of Uige (formerly Carmona). Once considered impregnable, the F.N.L.A. stronghold was abandoned without a fight after an M.P.L.A. rocket assault. After the fall of Uige, the M.P.L.A. captured the nearby airfield of Ngage, which had been the F.N.L.A.'s major supply point for arms...
...will begin the ritual consultations with various party politicians in an effort to form a new government. De Martino, responding to labor-union fury over early elections, allowed at week's end that the Socialists would "evaluate and consider" counterproposals to their demands, but the hope is nevertheless dim. Conceivably, Moro, or some other Christian Democratic leader, could try to rule with a new minority government, but it would probably fail its first parliamentary test. Worse, it would only postpone any real attempt to solve Italy's urgent problems...
Lamont - Any discussion of libraries has to begin with Lamont, especially any discussion of libraries with an atmosphere that resembles the inside of a coffin. The basic problem with Lamont, besides the fact that the lights are dim and the walls are ugly, is that a lot of people around here wear Topsiders, which, when in contact with the Lamont floors, create squeaks that would drown out Ella Fitzgerald...
...only one of 32 havens for the dying, 67 leprosariums, 28 children's homes that the order runs round the world, but it still moves visitors to wonderment. Muggeridge claims a modern sort of miracle for it. Some photos shot in the infirmary's hopelessly dim light, he says, turned out to be bathed in an inexplicably soft glow. Calcutta Journalist Desmond Doig, a self-described skeptic and author of a forthcoming book on Mother Teresa, reports a more personal miracle. Instead of finding the place repugnant, he became so suffused with its compassion that he began...
...Encourage entrepreneurs. Because of a widespread ideological commitment to the need for an "equitable" distribution of income, entrepreneurial initiative is frequently quashed-and with it, a dynamic needed to spur economic development. Many developing countries are hostile to business and take a dim view of profits; policies favoring featherbedding in order to cut unemployment rosters result in economic inefficiencies. The leaders of poor states may have to recognize that by choosing "equity," they may be delaying or even preventing development. Successful businessmen, skilled workers and innovators should be rewarded with high earnings, even if it means that their living standards...