Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Burger, who was just recovering from a persistent case of the flu, explained that his chores on behalf of the anniversary celebration were so time consuming that he could not fulfill them and still do justice to the court. According to his aides, the President was somewhat taken aback that Burger wanted to give up the court to keep the celebration. But he did not try to talk the Chief Justice out of his decision. At least one reason was that Burger's timing was politically opportune. The Republicans stand a real chance of losing control of the Senate this...
Their adventure begins when, after a somewhat uneventful few hours at the local bar where they scope out the same, boring men whom they have known (and, in Theresa's case slept with) for most of their adult lives, they decide to blow all of Theresa's paycheck on a cab ride into Liverpool proper and a try at one of the fancier bars where the action might pick up a little. They plan to start off with a little larceny to liven things up. By fleecing the cab driver, after some chit-chat through the communication panel, they discover...
...ideal freedom is a struggle toward the light, the U.S. is somewhat closer to it now--in economic freedoms, social freedoms and political freedoms --than it has ever been before. The obituary for the American frontier was pronounced by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893. But in the American mind, the future itself is the wilderness to be settled. The U.S. still works frontiers, finding new channels, inventing new lives. By its explorations in the realms of individual and social freedoms, America is making what historians may eventually consider its greatest contribution to the modern...
...Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, the poll also showed that many Americans are still not paying close attention to tax reform. Only one out of ten reported that they were very familiar with the tax-reform packages before Congress, and 36% said they were not familiar...
...volatility should be dampened somewhat by the return to the market of more small investors, who tend to leave their money in one place longer than portfolio managers do. Individuals by the millions have been switching to stocks and mutual funds because of their growing dissatisfaction with the shrinking returns on money-market accounts. Richard Bonner, a flower grower in Fallbrook, Calif., near San Diego, happened to boost his stake in the market just one day before the 100-point surge began. He then watched in delight last week as his $150,000 portfolio blossomed by an additional...