Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lighting. Why does almost every dorm room have a useless, ugly fluorescent light inside? Too weak for reading and often sporadic in response to the switch, these lights only cast rooms into a dim gloom. The University should end the charade of these lights--install real ones or simply tell incoming first-years to buy a halogen torchiere...
...scene occurred in a dim hallway, deep inside Dillon Field House, far away from any madding crowd. The cheers and the boos had given way to just this--a whisper...
...Democrats' dim chances to recapture the Senate next year faded even more when Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, 76, one of the chamber's most liberal members, said he would retire at the end of his current term. He becomes the seventh Demo crat to announce he will step down, a number that now endangers the Democrats' ability even to retain enough seats to sustain a filibuster...
...treated." The New York Senator is performing for a journalist in his Washington office. He's playing the New D'Amato--the same gracious character who has been seen on TV running the Senate Whitewater hearings and promoting a new autobiography. This is the persona designed to dim the memory of the Old Al, a cunning machine politician who was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee in 1991 after a dozen influence-peddling scandals had thoroughly soiled his name. "Be generous and fair," the New D'Amato says in conclusion, "not malevolent and meanspirited...
...children's art-education program survive, and know that the prospects of their survival are bound up with continuing, if modest, support from the NEA. Though the NEH and CPB will prove much harder to kill, the prospects of the NEA's survival in the long run are dim...