Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eyestrain can result from working for long periods without proper lighting. For the Cornell family, natural light comes through a window during the day, and a combination of indirect fluorescent lights and dimmer-controlled direct lighting provides even illumination at night...
...appears dimmer when it is farther away...
...advanced microbiology, rest assured that I attended an Ivy League college myself. That was in the days, I'll admit, when any number of people were admitted to such institutions without having shown any evidence of carrying smart-kid genes even in trace elements. Somehow, most of these dimmer bulbs managed to graduate--every class needs a lower third in order to have an upper two-thirds--and somehow most of them are now millionaires on Wall Street...
...supernova are dimmer than you would expect if the universe was expanding at a constant rate," Kirshner says. "They are about 25 percent dimmer than you would expect...
...considerable interests in China--suddenly dumped East and West, a memoir by former Hong Kong Governor CHRIS PATTEN that offers a frank and not always flattering assessment of the Chinese government. Though his editors were enthusiastic and though Patten signed a contract for $200,000, Murdoch took a dimmer view; a News Corp. statement said, "Murdoch did not agree with many of Patten's positions." Even though Macmillan Ltd. eagerly snapped up the book, Murdoch's decision could have a chilling effect. As one agent noted, "HarperCollins is not the only company trying to get a foothold in the Chinese...