Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlantic Cable Company arranged for the transmission of 10 free telegrams between Washington D.C. and Greenwich, England for astronomical reports, but attained only partial success...
...accord ended a precarious situation that had bankers and politicians in both Washington and Buenos Aires holding their breath whenever interest payments came due. For months Argentine Economy Minister Bernardo Grinspun has been shuttling between New York City, Washington and Buenos Aires. Default was avoided twice this year by partial payments or assistance from Argentina's Latin American neighbors. Meanwhile, the country's economy kept deteriorating. Inflation reached an annual rate of 1,200%, and labor unions were pressing for ever higher wages...
...workers. By no coincidence those plants turn out nearly half of GM's total production, including such hot-selling models as the Pontiac Fiero and Buick Century. But as the selective strike continued last week, more and more workers began to feel the impact of the partial walkout. At its peak, the strike affected 40 plants and 110,000 workers, one-third of GM's blue-collar work force...
...partial shutdown at GM came at a very healthy time for the U.S auto industry. For the first eight months of the year, car sales are up 24.1 % over the same period in 1983, and trucks are up 36.5%. Before the strike hit, the industry was headed for its second-best year in history, with sales of 14.9 million cars and trucks...
...witch. In a 1648 treatise, John Stearne explained witchcraft as a woman's game on the ground that females are more "revengeful" than men because of Satan's "prevailing with Eve." Such reasoning ensured that any rise in the standing of women could only be partial and restricted...