Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Desyr. During the Duvalier years, he was a shadowy figure whose picture never appeared in newspapers. A short man in a starched white shirt who now walks slowly and with a cane, Desyr protested his innocence over and over, producing a thin black Bible from his pocket and proclaiming somewhat incoherently in awkward French, "I am a good Christian. I am a Protestant. I am a Baptist...
...easy enough to condemn nervous Nellies at the networks for avoiding controversy. No network, for example, wants to be known as the liberal or conservative network, for this would shut off segments of the big audiences that their advertisers want to reach. This neutrality, this blandness, embodied somewhat loosely in what is called the Fairness Doctrine, is perhaps unavoidable in commercial conduits that must serve large and diverse audiences. Public television has more freedom but sometimes has trouble getting commercial underwriting to make controversial documentaries...
...paparazzi attention that has been focused on her, Caroline, a law student at Columbia University, is actually reserved; unlike the Kennedy men, who tend to define themselves by action, Schlossberg, whom she met at a dinner party five years ago, is an intellectual and artist whose somewhat rarefied career defies precise terminology. Frequently described as a "Renaissance man," he is a designer of museum displays and interiors and the author of nine books, including a computer handbook and a limited edition of poetry written on Plexiglas, aluminum and black cloth...
...College officials said that the delay was in Eliot Hall renovations was due to monetary considerations, but Jewett said yesterday that the new arrangement is "somewhat financially advantageous...
...begun to get together in informal groups that operated outside the law, the government concluded that the best way to control them was to legalize unions. It set up an organized labor system, including an industrial court that could rule in work disputes. At present, the legal situation is somewhat anomalous. Unions have the legal right to strike once they have gone through the requisite negotiations, but employers have the legal right to fire striking workers...