Word: somewhat
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Canada's Junior A leagues are somewhat comparable to the United States' minor league baseball system. Junior A players are the elite 16 to 20 year-olds and many of them graduate to the National Hockey League. Most of the players accept extra expense money and some receive salaries, ranging up to $3000-4000 a year for the top players...
John Humphreys, a freshman proctor, is offering a seminar on "Africa Since 1800." He said that he wants to keep the seminar somewhat unstructured so that each seminar member can follow his individual interests in Africa. The seminar will emphasize extensive discussion and a light reading load...
...developed countries, May and December marry as a matter of course. A census about 30 years ago in India listed nearly 400,000 widows under the age of 15. The custom of purchasing infants as future wives persists in parts of Africa, even though the mores are changing rapidly. Somewhat more conservatively, Chinese tradition dictates that a husband should be twice his wife's age plus one year...
...course, it is somewhat easier to become a minister in Hensley's church than to join the Catholic priesthood. All a candidate needs is a postage stamp. He will be ordained a minister by return mail. Any man, woman or child can become a minister in the Universal Life Church. The only thing that Hensley demands is a name and an address, so that he can fill out the certificate. After that, the new minister is on his own. In California, and according to Hensley, in many other states, he can perform marriages (if he is over 21), officiate...
...basic danger of doing a book as an act or a routine is that it is only as good as its last bit. Despite Roth's extravagant comic talents and ingenuity, Portnoy's Complaint flags in stretches. The ending is a boisterious but somewhat flatfooted way of getting Portnoy off the stage. On balance, however, Portnoy's Complaint is skillfully paced, eliciting more laughs per page than any novel in recent memory-Catch-22 and The Sot Weed Factor notwithstanding...