Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller's mistake had been to assume that the Fed's orchestration of the highest interest rates in five years would alone be sufficient to discourage borrowing and spending. Through the first half of 1979, business was actually slowing somewhat as a result of bad winter weather and the gasoline squeeze, which together put a crimp in consumer purchasing. The Fed even began to fear that its seemingly draconian interest rates were pushing the economy headlong into recession...
...board sees the economy remaining in recession until perhaps the summer of 1980. The total slide in the nation's output of goods and services would be anywhere from about 2% to 4%. Inflation will remain locked in double digits for the rest of 1979, but could edge down somewhat next year...
...somewhat self-conscious being interviewed as a writer. "I only have two professions for two weeks in an interval of ten years," he claims. "In between everyone forgets about me." His new novel McKay's Bees is "a pretty well kept secret," he says...
Irving of Brooklyn turned from the king somewhat baffled and spoke to St. John. And so the challenge was accepted, and the knights went to separate sides of the great field. It was a vast plain with great wooden and stone stands. And all the maidens crowded the seats, while the knights donned their armor...
...somewhat mysteriously did not earn an invitation to Harvard's pre-season soccer camp the next year--but after a few phone calls joined the team anyway. After a strong camp showing "Ostie" languished on the bench for the first three weeks of the season. But in a game against perennial power U.Conn, he got his chance. Ost made the most...