Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. They complain of headaches and stomach pains, caused by exhaustion and strain. "They are really suffering from depression," says Chia-ling Kuo, a research associate in anthropology at the City University of New York. "They are not really in the mainstream. Their joy is Sunday dim sum and Chinese movies. Most people in Chinatown don't ever have a chance to speak to an American...
...powers within the power, and they were about as good as you can be at that strange business. There have been stories, of course, about occasional stress backstage, and there may be some new revelations as the books and reminiscences roll out. But it will be hard to dim the luster of these four years, a remarkably long time for three ambitious aides to hang together and successfully support a President...
...only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign of a dim star that many scientists think does not exist: Nemesis, the death star, a possible companion...
...would travel in an enormous elliptical orbit three light-years across that would periodically take it farther from the sun than the distance between any known binary stars. Because it has not been identified in the four centuries since astronomers began using telescopes, it must be very small and dim, perhaps a red dwarf with one-third the mass and only one one-thousandth the brilliance of the sun. When it passed through the Oort cloud, it would dislodge a billion or more comets. Muller, searching for an appropriate name for the lethal companion, considered several. But the one that...
...this sounds dumb, it is because Foreman wants it to; his humor is self-effacing. He is neither dim nor punch- drunk. He has a sense of pride and confidence that seems to accompany enormous physical strength and the conviction that one is doing something right (financial solvency might play some part in this cheerful outlook as well, that and extremely early retirement). In any event, all Foreman wants to do is save souls and help young boys out of the gutter, his admitted childhood playground. "I saw some of the fellows I used to drink with standing around...