Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington Special Envoy Vernon Walters, offered a four-part solution: 1) British repossession of the Falklands to be followed by installation of a multinational administrative authority including the U.S., Britain, Brazil and Jamaica; 2) British sovereignty to continue for the time being, but with London considering at least a partial transfer of authority in the not too distant future; 3) a pullback of Argentine forces to be immediately matched or followed by a withdrawal by Britain of its task force; and 4) ultimately, direct negotiations between Argentina and Britain on the islands' long-term future...
Both books show the results of exhaustive research, including lengthy interviews with Herrin. Meyer, a freelance journalist, re-creates the case with admirable detachment. Gaylin, a distinguished psychiatrist and author (Feelings; Partial Justice) - and an admitted "father of daughters" - has specialized in questions of crime and punishment for more than 20 years. He delivers some pungent comments on the psychiatric "storytellers" on both sides, who "were acting as dutiful agents of the men who were paying their fees...
...point about using secrecy to obtain the professor truthful account offered up by Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members...
Vatican II extended partial recognition to non-Catholic churches, called for discussions on reunion, and eliminated the idea that Catholic belief should ideally be mandated, or at least protected, by the power of the state. It was especially this removal of church political claims that made feasible John Paul II's visit to Buckingham Palace...
...When you get a month or two behind," Bill recalls with a grimace, "some of the charge people begin to say, 'We don't want any partial payments. We want the whole thing-now!' Naturally, I could never meet that commitment...