Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forecasts, it will be a session of frugality, retrenchment and caution. Republican conservatives, their numbers strengthened somewhat by the last election, are poised to challenge the President on foreign policy. "We're going to raise hell on Taiwan," pledges Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt. "We're going to be heard on the Middle East." His views are echoed by moderate G.O.P. Newcomer William Cohen of Maine: "We seem to be committed to a course of withdrawal from major parts of the world, which raises questions about our reliability...
...effect told the Soviets that if they would behave leniently then they would be eligible for generous credits to pay for American goods, and that their exports to the U.S. would benefit from the relatively lower tariffs imposed on most favored nations. Although their emigration policies have been relaxed somewhat, the U.S. continues to limit their credits, and they have not received most favored nation status...
...somewhat similar linkage between politics and trade has also been imposed occasionally on transfers of technology. After the Kremlin last summer tried and convicted Human Rights Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, for example, Carter strongly condemned the action and blocked the sale of a computer to Moscow. Also canceled were several scheduled trips of high-level U.S. delegations to the Soviet Union. The President decreed, moreover, that transfers of advanced oil technology to the Soviet Union would have to be approved by the White House. His aim was to pressure the Kremlin to treat dissidents with more leniency; so far there...
...Washington's attitude toward forest power seems somewhat muddled. The Department of Energy is spending $42 million on wood-energy projects of all sorts, but the tax provisions of the Carter energy program do not give homeowners credits for the purchase of wood stoves, even though such credits are granted to families that save energy by adding insulation, solar panels and even windmills to their homes. One idea getting some attention from DOE officials is a feasibility study by a subsidiary of New Hampshire's Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. to build a wood-fueled electricity-and steam-generating plant...
Aficionados confronted with this query often take refuge in a mysticism more appropriate to the salons of Los Angeles than the sides of mountains. To Bernstein, the sport is, admittedly, "somewhat crazy." But, he adds, "there is a profound satisfaction in conquering one's deepest fears, a sort of spiritual satisfaction which in this age of televised and predigested experience is all but disappearing." Bernstein's descriptions of mountaineering are not likely to move the sedentary or in crease the sales of boots and tents. Yet no one who reads Mountain Passages should have any trouble understanding...