Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the firm unveiled its newest offering to the point-and-shoot crowd: a super-high-speed color print film-that promises to reduce greatly the need for flash attachments and light meters even in relatively dim settings...
...walked back to Aspen, very dejected. Sadat was there, dressed to go back to Washington. I asked everyone else to leave and told Sadat what was happening. We realized that all of us had done our best, but that prospects were dim indeed...
...memoir, Call Me Lucky. A young, white female history teacher asks her class of ten young black men, "And who won World War II?" In permissive California, San Quentin's main visiting room has the look of a junior high school make-out party where they forgot to dim the lights: dozens of couples, hugging, smooching, oblivious. In Leavenworth's vast mess hall, inmates grab their silverware from a miniature Conestoga and eat off red-and-white checkered tablecloths; the hoe-down amenities seem almost too perky to bear. In one dim passageway leading to an Illinois cellblock, some...
Such a statement is undoubtedly true for the UAW. Its membership has tumbled from 1.5 million in 1979 to 1.2 million today. Over 250,000 of those workers are laid off, and most have dim hope of regaining their positions. At the same time, the influx of new members has virtually dried up because any auto-company hiring is now almost exclusively from the ranks of the jobless...
...accustomed accolades and happy omens greeted the birth of an heir at 9:03 p.m., June 21. Yet, the arrival of the Princeling, who is in line to be the 42nd monarch since the Norman conquest, also had some marked differences. He was not born in the dim fastnesses of a palace, screened by courtiers, but in a $218-a-day, 12-ft. by 12-ft. white room, with one rather shabby armchair, at London's St. Mary's Hospital. Both parents had taken lessons in natural childbirth, and his father was in the room all through...