Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign, don't worry. Nothing serious surfaced--just a lot of blather about the need to do something, which is hardly news to most Americans. It's especially plain to the majority of younger workers, who are convinced that Social Security and Medicare will be little more than dim memories when they stop working...
...needed were a few masks, some decorations and dim lights," she said. "Most of the kids were pretty young so they were scared...
Last week's loss to Ivy foe Cornell places Harvard in something of a must-win situation. The Ivy season is short with no second chances, so even a single loss can dim Ivy league title hopes...
...must rely on one of the two major parties to give it to us, though neither is equal to the task. For all intents and purposes, the Democrats and the Republicans are both incumbent parties, and the prospect that either will cede some of their own power is dim. Nonetheless, it is the only way. In this election year, members of both parties, or at least those that care about a vital democracy, must call on their candidates to take this important step quickly...
...scourge of the elderly: a progressive, relentless disorder. Doctors have greatly improved the accuracy of iagnosis, but they can neither cure Alzheimer's disease nor arrest its victims' horrifying decline, as their minds--and the memories that fill them--grow inexorably dim, then fade away. Indeed, despite all the new knowledge about how the brain works--or perhaps even because of it--medical researchers seem as far from understanding what causes Alzheimer's as they have ever been...