Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy for businesses to nab giant tax breaks by hiring a few residents of the zone as custodial workers. Indeed, housing and other social service budgets that largely support America's inner cities would continue to shrink or disappear--making any hope for urban revival through the zone plan dim at best...
When I retired from teaching in 1973, the new math had already begun to destroy the teaching of algebra. In the dim period that followed, I kept hoping for something like the new textbook written by John Saxon [Dec. 21]. Unfortunately, it is too late for some of the misled students of the '70s who are not able to deal with complexities such as filling in Form 1040. For today's students, the Saxon book spells a renaissance...
...will be as if we ourselves were able to witness great Caesar's shock as he reels before the daggers inside the Roman Senate, Columbus' triumphant smile as he spies the dim outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since...
...Arranging the huge amounts of necessary bank financing will be difficult in view of current tight credit, and a Reagan Administration decision to speed up the decontrol of natural gas prices might also complicate the issue. Such a step would make Alaskan gas more expensive than projected and would dim the attractiveness of gas from under the midnight...
...with the elements of murder, mystery and romance. But as he has proved in films like Klute and All the President's Men, Pakula is a true stylist, a man who sees the world through a slow-panning lens darkly. For him, the corridors of power are menacingly dim and hushed, and by forcing the audience to dwell on his paranoid vision of that maze, the director commands a certain sober respect...