Word: semi
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...Economically speaking, O'Neill is this Bush administration's Colin Powell - unimpeachably qualified and reassuringly pragmatic. He vowed Wednesday to continue Clinton's strong dollar policy, a semi-sacred cow on Wall Street, but his business/manufacturing background makes him sympathetic to trade deficits. He's brave enough to have once backed an energy tax, but quick enough to have disavowed that stance soon after getting the call from the Austin oilmen. In short, he's the kind of guy who can talk about a trillion-dollar tax cut without everyone worrying that George W. Bush has ordered all White House...
...play is semi-autobiographical. I based it on some true incidents in my early life in South Africa, one being the murder of my grandfather on his farm. It was the very early days of the struggle for freedom, the late '60s, and we had never heard of anything like that happening before. My grandfather was a gentle man who cared deeply for the black families who lived unofficially on his farm. His attacker was never found; he was assumed to be a freedom fighter from Rhodesia who randomly attacked my grandparents. It was such a painful event...
...council asked the Ivy Council to prepare budgets and schedules for its semi-annual conferences a month in advance, to reform its conferences and to allow non-Ivy delegates to attend conferences, among other requests...
...royal ibis, tired and weather-worn but still defiant, said yesterday that he left North America after hearing rumors that he would soon be restored to the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...declined comment on Brown or the selection process. But the Survivor application says that excellent physical and mental health are required; all 48 semi-finalists underwent psychological testing to ensure their mental fitness in addition to physical examinations...