Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perennial contenders Princeton (12-5, 4-1 Ivy) and Dartmouth (12-6, 5-1 Ivy) are in hot pursuit of the leaders, and Yale's (5-11, 1-5 Ivy) prospects for a title seem rather dim...
...discontent and insecurity have causes beyond spoiled-brattism. Many people seem to have a dim but accurate sense that some of the trends that enabled them to pursue the good life despite declining real wages are stagnating or even reversing...
...away. The speediest space probe would take millions of years to reach them; even a radio signal, the fastest known thing in the universe, would need 35 years to get there, and it would take another 35 for any aliens, should they exist, to answer. The planets are so dim that they cannot be detected directly. In fact, the only evidence Marcy and Butler have is observations of tiny wobbles in the positions of the two stars, caused by the planets' massive gravity. The intensity of the wobbles tells the astronomers how big each planet is, and the timing reveals...
...unclear what will happen to the proposal, but if the original goal of achieving consensus remains, its future appears dim...
...expressing outraged opinions on controversial subjects. Here, however, working from a free adaptation of an autobiographical book by Sister Prejean, they have chosen to pursue a matter too subtle for sloganeering: the faint possibility that evil and goodness can find a way of speaking to one another, the dim hope that the former can be in some sense redeemed, the latter in some sense educated...