The room is cool and dim, with photographs in frames on both sides of the bed.
On the way out, I glanced through an open doorway, into a dim cafeteria with yellow brick walls.
Though the unemployment picture is still dim, with the July jobless rate ticking up to 8.3%, some people are nevertheless finding work.
In the summer of 2001, the prospects of launching a new trade round were dim, with huge divisions about what the Doha agenda should cover.
The world of the Lincoln-era Washington he created was incredibly accurate and realistic, from the White House with its dim lighting, to the Senate with its waist-coated and bearded men, from the wallpaper to the rugs, and everything in between, no detail was spared in the cause of authenticity.
Religious and ethical beliefs are approached in much the same way as dim sum, with samplings from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
So for those of us with dim memories of those far-off days, the harrowing early returns of spring training have a familiar ring.
In the back corner of ASUS' brightly lit Computex booth there's a simulated gamer's lair, complete with dim LED lighting, the sound of frequent gun fire and a small handful of nondescript gaming notebooks.
In the past, we may have considered a projector-equipped camcorder if the price was right, but with dim output (typically less than 20 lumens) and content options limited to footage you've shot, the available functionality often didn't justify a premium of several hundred dollars.
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Our refuge, though, was in sight: a cool, dim eatery, crisp with white linen and nearly empty.
The clinic's solar-powered batteries are able to run only one at a time, along with some dim fluorescent bulbs.
He surveyed boxes and suitcases, fingered the electric drill, tapped on the wine barrel, which echoed with a dim hollowness.
"It is easy, " chef Lau says, passing through, as I prepare to embark on my one-on-one lesson with his dim sum chef.
The remaining rodents were also exposed to a cycle, but the dark was replaced with a dim glow equivalent to the twilight at the first flickers of dawn.
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With prospects dim for any Republican support for a health care bill, the Democratic leadership wants to bring liberals, progressives and conservatives in their party together to use its majority in both chambers to pass a bill this year.
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On the contrary, he regards Russia's travails and the dim prospects for their correction with cold-eyed realism.
So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.
And bankers are vying for the prestige that comes with advising on landmark dim-sum deals.
"With ordinary street lights they're either on or they're off with these you can dim them, " he said.
Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.
Suddenly, common areas become overwhelmed with impatient commuters packed into dim, low-ceilinged spaces, waiting and waiting.
Sitting in penny loafers and a gray suit in the Bowery Mission's dank dining hall, with its crumbling linoleum and dim fluorescent lights, Morgan looks a little out of place.
And with that, I'm shuffling over towards the door, just underneath that dim exit sign that keeps blinking on and off, its fluorescent bulbs cracking with some syncopated rhythm all their own.
The Fireside lounge, surrounded in Honduran mahogany and festooned with plush couches, provided a dim haven for me to spend two Wednesday morning hours typing up an article.
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In a dim basement dining hall in Cherkasy, decorated with blue-and-white Star of David pennants, a woman who emigrated in 1988 recently watched in shock as old women dumped part of their lunch into plastic bags for dinner and breakfast.
We grabbed a few samples with the primary shooter, and they're looking pretty good -- there's low noise in the dim briefing room, although the shots (taken with the new auto mode) often lost a little bit of detail.
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Compare these with newspaper companies, under siege for their dim prospects, whose shares fetch 18 times earnings and soft-drink companies, at 20.
Most of these restaurants have made another big change in how dim sum is eaten: They've done away with serving trolleys, mainly to give chefs more control over cooking and presentation.
His scenes with Blonsky and Christopher Walken as Edna's dim, doting husband are full of dead air.
Housed in the historic Kress building, Kres Chophouse is prized for its cozy booths, dim lighting and hearty dishes such as Prime Top Sirloin Diane with white cheddar rosemary mash and brandy cream.
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