Word: dimmed
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Seniors begin the year with only a dim idea of what they want to do with their theses, much less the rest of their lives. As the year progresses, the realization sinks in that membership in "the fellowship of educated men and women" doesn't pay the rent or buy food. Panic sets in. Former hippies interview with investment banks; dedicated New Yorkers consider job opportunities in Montana...
...Justice would have been surprised by the breadth and intensity of this outpouring of gratitude. A strong and consistent liberal, he was no sentimentalist. He possessed a rather dim view of human nature, a view nurtured by his constant battling against social cruelties and reflected by the nature of the stories he loved to tell...
While noise pollution may be a matter of taste, no one can fairly claim that there is anything charming about Cambridge's abyssmal air quality. The main culprits in this regard are the ubiquitous idling taxis. We can turn down the heat until we get frostbite, we can dim the lights until we go blind from reading in the dark, we can win as many Green Cups or Ecolympics as we want, but as long as the Square remains the way it is, Cambridge will never get into compliance with the Clean...
That is particularly alarming because no matter what policies the new Administration pursues, the fate of the recovery will ultimately rest on the willingness of companies to start hiring again. So far, the outlook seems stubbornly dim. A recent American Management Association index of the hiring plans of 785 companies stands at a dismal 9.6 on a scale of 100. A growing economy would normally produce an index at least in the 30s. "This recovery will be limited to fewer jobs and lower incomes than at any other time in the postwar period," says Lawrence Mishel, research director...
...coming decade, Alcock and others believe, this collective ignorance may at last be dispelled. Small bands of determined researchers are embarking on elaborate hunts for the hidden side of the cosmos. Some, using telescopes, are taking aim at the dark halo that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going to strike gold...