Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family, patience with Kitty was wearing thin. There was a certain irony to that. Kitty has for months wanted her husband to run for President again. Urgently, she pressed him to keep his mind open about 1992. Now, with her own vulnerabilities so drastically exposed, that goal seemed fainter than ever...
...bullet on his family altar. "We sprinkle some water on it every day," he says, "so we can pacify the spirits of the dead elephants." Even as he speaks, there are more and more elephant spirits to placate, and the clack of tusk against tusk in Africa grows fainter and fainter...
...billion, the 100-inch telescope is designed to detect objects up to 30 times fainter than can now be seen...
...Images will be 10 times sharper, allowing usto see much fainter objects," said Kirshner. Thespace telescope will not be affected by theproblems that plague earth-based telescopes, suchas blurred images and an inability to examine theultraviolet spectrum, he said...
...that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness and the location of that difference on the electromagnetic spectrum make sense to astronomers: a newly formed galaxy would give off just such a light signature as it rushed away from earth in the general expansion of the universe...