Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brzezinski explains that his responsibility is national security, that it is up to him to perceive the threats and probes to the U.S. and figure out how to react, repel or rebuff. Vance's job, says Brzezinski, is to resolve contentious issues through negotiation. Vance sees his role as somewhat broader than that of negotiator, however. Some of his associates believe he feels a professional kinship with the modest but highly effective and creative George C. Marshall, Harry Truman's postwar Secretary. Unlike Brzezinski, Vance is both so self-effacing and self-confident that he does not resent or fear...
...average of 46.9% from 1970 through 1976, a jot higher than the consumer price index climb of 46.6%. In fact, these executives did not keep up with inflation because they were pushed into higher tax brackets, and much of their raises was taxed away. Last year they did somewhat better. A sampling of proxy statements of 50 major companies shows that their top executives' cash compensation-salary plus bonus-rose by almost 11%, v. a 6% jump for inflation...
Granted that initial handicap, Vincent Price as a second-best Wilde is witty, debonairly outrageous and occasionally moving. The format of his one-man show is somewhat constricting and deliberately artificial. John Gay, who devised the evening, has conceived it as a lecture delivered in Paris in 1899, a year before Wilde's death, and some time after he had been released from his two-year prison term in Reading Gaol...
...other singles matches led to somewhat more pleasant results. Suddenly superb Andy Chaikovsky picked up his seventh straight singles victory in a long, tough three-setter with Penn's Dan Moses. "Chaik" lost his edge in the second set before charging back in the third to win, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4. Five-man Kevin Shaw kept close on Chaikovsky's heels, winning his fifth straight match when he handled Paul Moss in a relatively easy three-setter...
...Harvard lacrosse players shook hands with their Yale counterparts Saturday, put the 10-8 win in their pockets, and scuttled home from New Haven somewhat sheepishly, just hoping to forget...