Word: partway
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...negotiators are thus struggling to find spending cuts and tax hikes that would still fall short of covering the rising cost of the bailout. Both sides have agreed to boost taxes on alcohol, gasoline and autos priced at $30,000 and up. But such increases would go only partway toward paying for Bush's cherished reduction of the capital-gains tax from a top rate...
Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach. They not only passed the strictest anti- abortion law adopted by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...