Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, Raymond Price and Richard Nixon have grown closer since resignation. Their professional association continues, though its focus has changed somewhat. Whereas hardly three-and-a-half years ago. Price collaborated with Nixon on the president's pronouncements on the highest affairs of state, today Price serves as a literary aide-de-camp for the disgraced statesman, as he pens his memoirs in the seclusion of his San Clemente estate...
Sadat was applauded both when he walked to the podium and when he finished his address?almost unprecedented in the Knesset. His insistence on full return of the occupied territories chilled the atmosphere somewhat, but there was no abrupt foreshortening of his schedule. Later in the day he met with members of Israel's opposition parties and had a working dinner with Begin at which more substantive issues were discussed than the speeches covered...
Sadat is making a historic, statesmanlike gamble that may very well change the future of the Middle East?for better or for worse. And in accepting Sadat's overtures to direct contacts, Begin has shown an initiative and enterprise somewhat surprising for an old independence fighter and memorably different from the dogged, entrenched positions that were taken by the Labor governments that preceded his Likud faction in power...
...Knesset, he was also acknowledging Israel's right to consider Jerusalem as its capital (even the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has been somewhat suspicious of his Arab brother since the second Sinai accord of 1975, through which Egypt regained the Abu Rudeis oilfields...
...chemical called cyanate-can prevent sickling. Tests on both animals and humans confirmed this, but the cyanate also had toxic side effects on the nervous system. So the Rockefeller scientists suggested adding the cyanate directly to the blood. That idea has led to the experimental development elsewhere of machines, somewhat like artificial kidney units, which allow the cyanate to react with the blood outside the body...