Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolf acknowledges that the concentration is somewhat "cliquey". Howell, who says that the food at her cafe is the best on campus and that the lobby exhibitions at the Carpenter Center are very interesting, also says that "the people who hang out here are chic, chi-chi--they see themselves as artistes...
...while an assortment of relatively puny competitors gets the rest. But one of those companies, Detroit's Burroughs (1985 sales: $5 billion), is determined to acquire one of its fellow underdogs and give Big Blue a run for its data. Burroughs has chosen as its partner-to-be a somewhat larger competitor, Sperry of New York City (fiscal 1986 sales: $5.7 billion). The two companies, which each have about 6% of the market, would together become the world's second largest computer maker. But a rather crucial problem has plagued the courtship from its start almost a year ago: Sperry...
...worth remembering that as John F. Kennedy turned 40, he was still a somewhat callow politician being maneuvered by his domineering father. When Kennedy was elected President in 1960, he was 43, and his generation, the Baby Boomers' parents, was just coming to power...
...traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close identification with the Chief Justice to join the court's shifting centrists, has also noted O'Connor's passage. "In certain areas," he told a meeting of federal judges last summer, "she is becoming somewhat independent and her own woman...
American Greetings' In Touch line has the bluntest, quirkiest of the cards, including a sincere but somewhat wimpy message from a jilted lover ("Everyone tells me I'll get over it . . . but how could they ever begin to know how much I loved you?"), a modified zinger to get a friend to back off ("I want to please you, but first I have to please myself"), and a cryptic note aimed at intimates who apparently intend to conduct the rest of their relationship over the phone ("More than anything, it's the eye contact I'll miss...