Word: dimmer
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Students seeking a Ph.D from HBS commit to five years in the program. And their post-graduation earnings prospects in the academic world are often dimmer than those of master’s of business administration (MBA) students who are headed to the private sector...
...puritans. Pragmatists believe that resistance to student alcohol consumption is futile. College students are bound to drink no matter how high the penalties—better to do what you can to promote responsible drinking habits and provide safe environments for students to drink. Puritans, in contrast, take a dimmer view of underage alcohol consumption. The law says underage students shouldn’t touch fire water, and those who do will get burned...
While Connaughton pitched his perspective as an optimistic one, some environmentalists have taken a dimmer view...
...time, while she went out to work. We managed. But what a waste. A man who had been a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, surviving the horrors of the fighting on Guadalcanal, slaughtered because some twit driver forgot his dimmer switch. Over the half-century since that night, I've wondered what it might have been like to pronounce the word Dad rather than just write...
...Japan's celebrity circuit, there are no bigger cats than the Kano sisters. Not a day goes by without one of them hogging airtime on a TV variety show, hawking breast-enhancing vitamins in commercials or eclipsing dimmer stars on the gossip pages. But these sisters don't serve aces like the Williamses, headline playbills like the Redgraves or write classics like the Bront?s. Their explosive fame could only happen in Japan, where the only job requirement for a tarento, or talent, is showing up in front of a TV camera. Undaunted by a lack of categorical expertise, the sisters...