Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under orders from the Ohio Supreme Court, Nadel reluctantly made public the 225-page investigative report to Giamatti prepared by John Dowd, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney. Dowd's case is somewhat weakened because it depends heavily on the testimony of Ron Peters and Paul Janszen, two convicted felons. But Dowd insisted that their stories were corroborated by other witnesses, by tape recordings, by records of Rose's telephone calls and, most important, by betting sheets that a retired FBI expert judged to be in Rose's handwriting. Rose said he could not identify them...
...looked at one another. I know that I atleast was somewhat awed and disturbed by the ideathat our relationship would at some point becomejust another story, one small bit of an entireHarvard experience. And then we began to thinkabout how the mythical first-year piece wouldbegin...
While astronomers who study the sun get more attention during periods of solar maximums, they generally feel somewhat neglected, underfunded and unappreciated, poor cousins to those who observe distant stars and galaxies in the night skies and who consider the sun boring. Then why do solar astronomers persist? "We are driven to an understanding of the sun," says Robert Howard, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson. "It is an enormous lab. It is a Rosetta stone for the study of the stars. With other stars, all you have is a pinpoint of light. By understanding more about...
...bounce back into the interior, where the greater heat bends them toward the surface again. The result, says astronomer Robert Noyes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a "sun ringing like a bell, but not one that is being struck by a clapper. Rather, it is vibrating somewhat like a bell suspended in a sandstorm, continuously struck by tiny grains of sand...
...Texas, high winds and rough water complicated efforts to control the mile-long slick that resulted from a collision between the Panamanian-registered tanker Rachel B and a barge being towed by a tugboat in the Houston Ship Channel. Fortunately, the accident occurred in inland waters, where it is somewhat easier to clean up a spill than in the open...