Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artistic prospects for next year seem dim. It's hard to anticipate greatness after a year in which the Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III declared that Spenser for Hire was quality television, a year in which the Advocate published a parody of the New Yorker and nobody got the joke, a year in which the city of Cambridge silenced Harvard Square street folk singer Luke because a city councillor thought he attracted skinheads. Still, there is enough creativity and activity on campus to insure more innovation--to make us think, or at least keep us awake...
...answer: greater spending by the West Europeans. With a combined gross domestic product of $4.3 trillion, they are as strong economically as the U.S., and their total population of 374 million is one-third larger than that of the U.S. The likelihood that defense outlays will increase is dim, however, since European economic growth rates are slowing. Another inhibiting factor, a senior U.S. official notes, is that "arms talks are making progress and detente is in the air." And just as crises tend to pull NATO together, any easing of East-West tensions tends to magnify the forces pulling...
Another league loss, and the Crimson's prospects for Ivy and national glory will dim considerably. Harvard will resume its Ivy schedule April 20, when it faces Brown in Providence...
...first-year levels or higher. That would imply an outlay of perhaps more than $36 billion in additional federal cash alone over the next twelve years. Less costly proposals would ease the terms on which FHA mortgages are made available to home buyers. Prospects for immediate action are dim. Under terms of the budget compromise reached last fall between the White House and Congress, an extra $3.4 billion for housing would have to be taken out of some other type of domestic spending, a prospect no legislator relishes. Though a Senate subcommittee will consider legislation this spring, Rouse concedes that...
...future course, though, is dim. Money for permanent national teams is nowhere in sight. Nor are N.H.L. owners lining up to lend their Gretzkys to the national Olympic efforts. Right now, in fact, the owners reap far more than they sow, with more than 20 Olympic veterans about to enter their organizations. The hottest rumor: star Soviet Defensemen Vyacheslav Fetisov and Aleksei Kasatonov might join the New Jersey Devils, a sublime irony after years of Soviet state-paid shamateurism...