Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said he: "Help me get back so I can do the work I'm supposed to do." Any FBI agents who came in search of the missing Yippie had to settle for a lot of '60s humor and the dim hope that Hoffman might yet show up at the Yippies' forthcoming Tenth Annual Festival of Life at the original scene of the crime, Lincoln Park in Chicago...
...side effects: pressure on smaller carriers to seek mergers with bigger ones. Besides the Pan Am-National deal, at least two other mergers are in the talking stages, Continental with Western and North Central with Southern. In interviews with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, Kahn said he would take a dim view of mergers that seem to amount to a search for "a security blanket." Potential merger partners, he added, would bear a "heavy burden" of proof that their union would not reduce competition...
...determined that after all of the nuclear fuel is consumed, gravity eventually would cause the star to contract into a white dwarf, a sphere only about as big as the earth but so dense that each cubic centimeter would weigh a ton. Their calculations finally made sense of a dim companion of the star Sirius that was first observed in the 1860s and had puzzled astronomers for decades. Though the star was apparently small, it exerted an inexplicably great gravitational pull on Sirius. The dense little companion?like others that have been observed since?was a white dwarf. But would...
...cannot imagine why we would pass two bills on two successive days to accomplish essentially the same objective." As it happens, the House-which approved its own $1.1 billion tax credit package June 1-has the President's proposal buried in committee. Its chances of passage seem dim...
...earls engaged to the same girl. Shovelton has a lovely unforced tenor voice, and Ayldon's baritone beautifully belts out "When Britain Really Ruled," a parody of patriotic songs like "Rule Britannia." In their spoken Act II discussion they capture to perfection Gilbert's portrait of Victorian dim-witted stuffiness. They are fine, too, in the sure-fire trio "He Who Shies," as they try to catch the lithe-limbed Lord Chancellor indulging in undignified capers (including even a touch of the Charleston...