Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House reporters, sensing Carter's feeling that his message was not getting through, asked a sharp question: "What bugs you about the Washington press corps?" Somewhat sarcastically, Carter answered that he had no dispute with such "a group of superbly qualified, highly objective, extremely intelligent analysts," but he added that he planned to "let my voice be heard and felt . . . from various places in the country." This week the new campaign of hard-selling will take him to Bardstown, Ky., and more trips are being planned...
...Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck, N.J.-and is known to be somewhat parsimonious. His cigars, complain his associates, do not carry a banker-like aroma. (One of his first acts, nonetheless, will probably be to remove the NO SMOKING signs Chairman Miller installed in the Fed boardroom.) Volcker's preferred entertainment is watching sports on television with a beer in hand. Once, when...
...precise scope of Donovan's duties remains to be worked out between him and the President. "The chemistry is really good between them," says a senior presidential aide. "Jimmy wanted someone who could give him honest, solid judgments in the whole decision-making process." Donovan's somewhat wry view: "The President wants to be able to talk about almost anything freely with somebody who has some gray hair...
...Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms issues one routinely when the applicant posts a bond promising not to sell or drink the alcohol. Automakers approve of ethanol power, but caution that it does present some problems. Though it has a higher octane level than even high-test gas, ethanol contains somewhat less overall energy to the gallon, and the mileage it yields is up to 20% less...
...Mark V, last of Detroit's gas-gulping monarchs, came off the line at the company's Wixom, Mich., plant on June 8. Last week the plant turned out its successor, the Mark VI. It is 14 in. shorter, 800 lbs. lighter, gets 14 m.p.g., and is somewhat boxier in shape. Yet all is not lost for big-car lovers. Beside the mite-size models filling the highways today, even the down-sized Mark VI looks gargantuan...