Word: somewhat
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Britain and France took somewhat different approaches to the terrorism that afflicted their cities. After investigating two earlier killings-the murder of former Iraqi Premier Abdel Razak Nayef last month and the shooting of P.L.O. Representative Said Hammami in January-British authorities decided that Iraqi agents were deeply involved, and that Baghdad was using its embassy and airline to import weapons and killers. The Foreign Office as a result ordered home seven Iraqi diplomats and four other nationals. In retaliation, eight British diplomats and two other nationals were banished from Baghdad...
Since Borman outraged U.S. planemakers by buying a European plane, Boeing has led a campaign in Washington against what Treasurer Jack Pierce calls "predatory financing." Indeed, Borman got a good deal, which includes a $250 million loan guaranteed by European government agencies. Somewhat reluctantly, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has agreed to try to meet the European terms by making more of low-interest loans available to foreign buyers of U.S. aircraft...
...play has eight characters, the new one nine; and of these, six turn up in both. The new version sticks somewhat more closely to the novel in terms of plot. And, in these days of high production costs, it has the advantage of convincingly restricting the action to Dr. Seward's study, whereas the old play requires three separate sets...
...refugees frequently cite disaffection with Haiti's regime, although it has been liberalized somewhat under Papa Doc Duvalier's son Jean-Claude. "I can't say anything against the government or I go to jail," says Andre Gerard, 22, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by way of the Bahamas. Adds Ivon Louis, 27, "It's still the same thing, man. Papa and Baby are the same...
...volunteers must do the work-particularly in child care centers, nursing homes, libraries and alcohol abuse programs. One of the most persuasive practical arguments for volunteering is that it will reduce, by many ergs, the amount of work that bureaucracies must do. Thus, there is the sweetness of having somewhat thwarted the impersonal state. Says Brown Assistant Charles Baldwin: "Proposition 13 will be the real test of the individual citizen to accept the responsibility...