Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little, pondering the question. He screws up his soft face, where a little bit of a goatee outlines his chin--but it's really in his eyes. His brown eyes grow misty and far away; and the deep sighs, mixed with a sad chuckle or two reveal a man somewhat puzzled by his situation...
...trade?traffic in minors ?and to get prostitutes off the street. The city is still trying to enforce, with some success, the stiff, two-year-old antiloitering law (not coincidentally passed on the eve of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City). Prostitution is somewhat less visible now. But the wording of the antiloitering law, which allows arrests for "repeated beckoning," is claimed to be unconstitutional. Once upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals, the law is being tested again by the New York Civil Liberties Union...
...week the state G.O.P. came out against her as "a serious threat to the California courts"; by November a coalition of Bird hunters will have spent upwards of $600,000 on a campaign to clip the judge's wings. Late last week, Bird's chances of hanging on improved somewhat when the State Supreme Court approved the constitutionality of Proposition 13, the highly popular tax-cut measure...
...then it will pick up enough to produce a growth rate of 3.1% for all of 1979; that would not be far below the 3.9% expected this year, and is probably about as much as the economy can afford without generating even worse inflation. Eckstein's colleagues differ somewhat on the exact timing and shape of the slowdown, but they accept his general outline...
Peterson, an Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Kennedy years, was the first person to fill the White House consumer post after Lyndon Johnson created it in 1964. Reappointed by Carter, and enjoying somewhat greater clout in the Oval Office, she helped persuade the President to raise beef import quotas in June as a way to drive down meat prices, and she is lobbying for legislation to keep coffee and sugar prices low. Of her new publication she says: "It's not pabulum. It's no WIN button...