Word: partially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team had to cope with allies as well as adversaries. At certain critical points, President Carter disrupted negotiations by sounding off in public. In a speech last month, for example, he casually remarked that the U.S. might retain "partial sovereignty" over the canal even after 2000. Panamanians, who thought that issue had been settled, exploded in outrage until they were reassured by Bunker and Linowitz. "Well," noted a participant, "there isn't much we can do about loose language...
...which there could be no doubt that the right man had been caught. Police had not released Berkowitz's first note to them precisely so they could confront any suspect with something only he could answer. How had he signed that note? "The monster," he correctly replied. Partial fingerprints taken from the killer's notes to the police and Breslin matched those of Berkowitz. Ballistics tests showed that the .44-cal. revolver seized from Berkowitz had fired the shots that killed Stacy Moskowitz. The only legal defense against a murder conviction seemed to be a plea of insanity...
...father helped to point him toward his theory that parent-child conflict is biologically certain. Trivers believes that the child shows a selfish interest in itself and seeks to get more than its fair share of the energy and resources of parents. But the parent has only a partial genetic interest in each child and thus is preoccupied with sharing resources. The result, according to Trivers, is biologically certain conflict between the child, who tends toward selfishness, and the parent, who insists that the child share...
Most of the candidates accept this argument. But Abzug seems emotionally unable to settle for that. Though she pledges administrative reform, and acknowledges the need to keep business and attract new firms through partial tax exemptions and expansion of industrial parks, she also argues that New York must restore such services as free undergraduate tuition at City University when resources permit...
Federal investigators have managed to piece together only a partial picture of his double-dealing after about 1½ years of digging. Some information has come from electronic surveillance of Seoul's Blue House, the executive mansion of the President of South Korea. Another source has been Kim Hyung Wook, who headed the Korean Central Intelligence Agency from 1963 to 1969, and has been a political refugee in the U.S. since 1973. Last week Kim testified before the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, chaired by Democrat Donald M. Fraser...