Word: partially
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...Molly Ringwald, a diva whose behavior almost prevented her from getting the star role, occupied too much of his time. “Mollie had a little taste of fame already. She was a bit of a handful,” he explained, adding that the studio was not partial to Ringwald. “They wanted the girl from ‘Flashdance,’” he said.Deutch fought for Ringwald. “I groveled a bit to a sixteen-year-old,” he said, adding that the decision paid off.Thompson shared...
Even soft-spoken Ginsburg belted out an aria last term. The decision to uphold a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions provoked a speculative outburst from the legendary women's rights advocate. The ban, she declared from the bench, "and the court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court...
...said. The committee’s goal, which Harris says is an ambitious one, is to choose the implementation plan in time for a vote by professors before the start of the spring shopping period in February. By that time, the committee also hopes to have at least a partial list of Core courses that will count for Gen Ed credit, Harris said. Using the guidelines set by the Gen Ed legislation passed in May, the committee has full discretion to decide which Core courses will make the cut under Gen Ed.The committee is also actively working to recruit departmental...
...strong brigade and its supporting personnel a month. The timing is strategic and political. Pentagon personnel predict a massive drop in recruiting and retention in April if troops overseas aren't given long-promised breaks to go home. The political clock is ticking too. A partial springtime withdrawal would permit the White House to signal six months before the 2008 election that it is bringing...
...dance. She loved to flirt and she thought that flirting as an institution necessary to romance had disappeared, a fact that she mourned. She thought love was a many-splendored thing that should never be cheapened. Love, she believed, brought out the best in people. While she was partial to men, many of her loyal friends were women. She had countless friends - of both genders - all over the city, and they all took care of her. As she got older, for example, she was not supposed to drive, but drive she did, in Maine and at her beloved Holly Hill...