Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week ago things looked pretty dim for the Mission Park Housing Project. Just a few days earlier William J. White, executive director of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, dropped a bomb-shell by recommending to his board that the Harvard-backed development not receive a $39 million mortgage loan...
...summer of private discussions. To optimistic observers, it appeared that Ulster's Protestant and Roman Catholic politicians might be on the verge of some pragmatic settlement. Even the continued tide of sectarian terror, which extended to England in a wave of recent bombings (TIME, Sept. 15), did not dim the hope. The very savagery of the killings, so the reasoning went, would pressure the politicians to reach agreement...
...spite of efforts by the GSAS, most officials and students at the Graduate School continue to believe that prospects for the academic market are dim, with no substantial improvement in sight. "It's possible that the intellectual and economic climate of the country is so bad at this time that no matter what we do, a large number of Ph.D.'s won't get jobs," McKinney says matter-of-factly. "But so far, at least, having a Ph.D. is still better than not having a high school diploma...
This is the sort of private-eye period piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them. How can anyone take such an enterprise seriously, after all, when the detective runs around in a trench coat six inches too short and 25 years...
...accuse her bishop of sex discrimination through secular channels is likely to do the women's cause little good within the church, and it could well create a backlash. Many delegates to next year's convention, like St. Paul in / Corinthians 6:1, may take a dim view of filing a suit against a Christian "brother...