Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good time to visit Chinatown is on a bright, i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the numerous Chinese restaurants...
...points in the first half hour of trading on fears that the Federal Reserve would boost interest rates to ward off inflation. (The market rebounded later in the day, closing up nearly 30 points.) Labor Secretary Robert Reich, whose department released the new figures, criticized Wall Street's dim view: "This isn't the first time that Main Street has celebrated, and Wall Street has despaired. I don't see any signs of accelerating inflation." The Labor report shows that jobs swelled by 348,000 last month, twice the number expected. It was not the first positive employment report...
...says the CSA holds seven or eight social events a semester, with activities ranging from a mahjong and karaoke night to a dim sum study break...
Carswell and Shearer were two bright stars in the otherwise dim constellation that was the 1996 men's track team, which was plagued by injuries all season...
...sell. The U.S. had information, Secretary of Defense William Perry confirmed, that China was trying to buy technology, and possibly parts, of the SS-18 missiles built in Ukraine and deployed in the former Soviet Union. China has already deployed a few icbms, but Washington takes a dim view of China's acquiring technology from the huge, accurate, 10-warhead SS-18, the most threatening weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal. "We believe that would be a big mistake," Perry told reporters, "and have so represented our position to the Russian government and the Ukrainian government." Protests to Beijing...