Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is precisely halfway through his first term as President of the United States, a job he sought almost obsessively, began with a poorly directed enthusiasm and now fulfills with somewhat erratic results. He has performed diligently, but with limited success. He has won victories, suffered defeats, made mistakes, learned from the job, built a record of some competence and of far-reaching efforts at reform occasionally interspersed by silly blunders. He has reversed a major decline in his popularity, yet he is still something of a stranger in his own party, attacked from its broad ideological wings left...
...militarism and of violence aimed at priests. The poor were offered "the happiness of the [spiritual] kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Outraged liberals charged that a campaign was afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them to mute political statements at CELAM...
...behind the masks, exams were a somewhat joyous celebration of a tension-packed, wild win over Dartmouth, 14-13, before the January break...
...sure the Faculty Council will be somewhat disturbed to see that increase," Dean K. Whitla, director of the University's Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, said yesterday. He added that some changes made in the examination process to cut down on the number of medical excuses had been discussed by the Council and "may well be considered again...
...National Council meeting reached agreement on the most important issues on its agenda early on. The relatively moderate Yasser Arafat remains the dominant figure within the P.L.O., although the role of George Habash and his radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will be somewhat expanded. Delegates took the considerable step of agreeing to adopt a joint political program. They rejected the Camp David plan for creating an autonomous "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza, and they insisted that the P.L.O. and not King Hussein should represent the Palestinians. Hussein accepted both these points, bringing himself into closer...