Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill of Rights and promised to push for special vocational rehabilitation programs for the disabled. Capitol Hill too has been demonstrating a new attitude toward the vets. One reason may be that the number of Viet Nam veterans in Congress now totals 19. Last week, after having rejected a somewhat similar Senate bill four times in the past eight years, the House voted 342 to 0 to appropriate $16 million for psychological, alcoholic and drug counseling for Viet Nam veterans...
Business faculty say the case method forces research into the kinds of practical problems their school wants to teach. "The case method is a method of research--Bok's report is somewhat like telling a chemist not to do any work in a laboratory, just to think up ideas," Wickham Skinner, Robinson Professor of Business Administration, says. "The business world is our laboratory...
...fact, Radcliffe was somewhat confounded when, at age 25, she decided to go to college. She had been admitted as a senior in high school but had chosen marriage instead. Then, in 1944, with her husband in the Marines, bored with wartime volunteer work, she remembers, "I began to think, this is ridiculous. I've got to do something more constructive with my time. So I went over to Radcliffe, and they were not particularly responsive. It was pointed out to me that I had made my choice, that indeed I was a wife and mother." Lyman stood firm, however...
...somewhat gratuitous to try and pick apart a book that falls apart of its own accord. Lopez is consistent only in his insulting and pretentious tone, strange for one so attached to mother Harvard. Beyond that, the chapters ramble without direction, and often fail to adequately cover their topics. The section on the undergraduate college, for example, is a messy heap of old famous grads, stories about buildings, and nasty quotations from anonymous sources who hate Harvard...
American skepticism about the energy shortage has two elements. First, a somewhat truculent sense of equity leads people to insist, "I will sacrifice, if necessary, but I'll be damned if I'll be the first." That leads to a paralysis of selfishness in which each citizen assumes the bad faith of all the rest...