Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They have gone from the dim obscurity of the Indoor Athletic Building to Briggs Athletic Center. There over the weekend they drew 4000 in two nights, a record for the three year-old facility...
Kapitsa also said the Soviet leadership had come close to using nuclear arms on China. He had been at the Politburo discussion. He said that Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister, actively advocated a plan "once and for all to get rid of the Chinese threat." Grechko, a dim-witted martinet replaced by Dimitri Ustinov in 1976, called for unrestricted use of the multimegaton bomb known in the West as the "blockbuster." The bomb would release enormous amounts of radioactive fallout, not only killing millions of Chinese but threatening Soviet citizens in the Far East and people in other countries...
...that NASA engineers had to slow down the transmission rate so that information could be distinguished from normal radio background noise. As a result, it took Voyager at least four minutes to transmit a single picture. Then too, the images picked up by the spacecraft's cameras were extraordinarily dim; the sunlight reaching Uranus is only about 1/400th as intense as it is on earth. But computer...
...reading period, four pre-med roommates found their organic chemistry final approaching faster than they might ideally have wished. The day before the exam, they realized that their hopes for success on the test were dim at best. And their hopes of admission into medical school, which in turn, of course, had immeasurable influence on their hopes for fiscally rewarding adult lives were fading before their eyes. Calculating realistically, they determined that what they really needed was another solid 48 hours to study for the exam, which unfortunately was scheduled in approximately...
Schroeder's high spirits may dim somewhat, physicians warn, as the hospital staff begins to treat him more like a "usual patient" and less like a celebrity. He will have to come to grips psychologically with being permanently tied to an air-pump system, in much the way that paraplegics learn to accept their wheelchairs. To date, Schroeder's good humor has been strained only once, when he took part in a series of experiments last Monday. Doctors first injected him with Isuprel, Neo-Synephrine and Nitroprusside, three drugs frequently used to treat shock or high blood pressure...