Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration took a dim view of Jackson's diplomatic gambit. A State Department official said it was bound to "muddy the waters" of U.S. policy. "If he's there milling around," the official said, "we can't accomplish anything. It sends conflicting messages to the Syrians. It's just a political stunt...
...imbalance being caused by Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, his Social Democratic Party has since changed its position and come out against the NATO response. In Britain, the Labor Party advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament. The crushing electoral defeats that these principal opposition parties suffered in 1983 dim their hopes of coming to power very soon, but Washington can no longer be serenely confident that any foreseeable British or West German government will back its position. Even the strongest West European governments must take into account the public nervousness. If the Soviets engage in a prolonged boycott...
...half-hour Empire will do nothing to improve TV's already dim view of the typical executive. Like J.R. Ewing of Dallas, most businessmen come off on the tube as antiheroes at best. A 1981 study by the Media Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C.-based group, found two of every three video businessmen were portrayed as crooks, conartists or clowns...
...creation of this work," he might say, "was accomplished in my small study. There in the presence of the artifacts of my life--various pieces of stone, various edges of brass, the Mobius strip of my intellect. The lighting was dim, the room was a cave my mind was the world...
...whole business. As was Annie, come to think of it. Since the weather was uniformly fine and their mates on the hotel staff, being lower class and English, were politely eccentric, it is hard to see anything about the experience that was unpleasant. Even sitting through the rather dim and distant movie about that long-ago event (the film is set in 1962) can hardly be classed as a chore...