dimout

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We are cooperating with the coastal dimout, using blue lights along our boardwalk and beachfront, but this change has made our resort more, not less, attractive.

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Clearest indication of the dimout is the unpublicized decision to change plans for Evita's mausoleum.

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The only night games affected by the sea-coast dimout are those held at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Manhattan's Polo Grounds, where the Dodgers and Giants now play at twilight instead.

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For three days a delivery strike had imposed a news dimout on the biggest newspaper town in the nation, completely shutting off distribution of all Greater New York's leading dailies.*

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Of their 41 leagues, twelve have folded this year: ten were frightened out of starting the season, two gave up when seacoast dimout regulations prevented night games.

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