Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Research) is that one-run strategies (including sacrifice bunts and stolen bases) are usually pointless. A corollary of this premise is that major league managers, with the exception of Earl Weaver and a few others, do not know what they are doing, a fact that makes anti-James feeling somewhat understandable. Baseball research is in its infancy, and much of it is slapdash. But the numbers suggest that the sabermetricians are on the right track and that baseball faces the galling prospect of falling in line with provincial researchers like Bill James. Who knows? James may yet get to throw...
...plus passengers all cheerfully piled out to fill the hole. The first breaks developed in Pennsylvania, but the line wound south to Washington, where it was routed through the White House. Persuaded at the last minute by his daughter Maureen to take part, President Reagan stood somewhat stiffly among staff members' children and friends, using a crib sheet for some lyrics but needing no help for a flawless rendition of America the Beautiful--both verses. (Across from the White House, protesters demonstrated against the President's policies toward the homeless...
...Steiner '54, who oversees the University police, dealt with Cruz's complaints. Several months later he established a student-administrator committee to consider problems of police harassment. Cruz has served on the committee. "I feel very positively and very warmly about Remy. When we first met we had a somewhat antagonistic relationship, but over a few meetings, I came to like him," Steiner says of Cruz...
...administrators are somewhat hopeful that the new, clarified procedures, as well as the greater acceptance of sexual harassment as a valid complaint, have helped make students more willing to report sexual harassment incidents to the University. A report released in September revealed a rise in the number of cases reported to University officials, but the officials say it is impossible to determine whether this trend reflects increased awareness or an actual increase in sexual harassment incidents themselves...
...figures are preliminary and perhaps somewhat misleading because a greater number of students this year were conducting job searches independent of the OCS, counselors...