Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hockey polls are more than a little suspect, the Crimson has been a darling of the voters, ranking in the top 10--and often the top five--for much of the season. Clarkson has never been highly ranked. In addition, some of the same people who contribute to these somewhat dubious polls also select the tournament teams and are inclined to make themselves look good...
...country is another story. The Reagan Administration's campaign to stop the smugglers, an effort backed by $1.2 billion last year compared with $708 million in 1981, seems to make the outlaws only craftier and more cold-blooded. Total imports of heroin and marijuana have declined somewhat, but cocaine now flows into the U.S. from Latin America at a rate of roughly 125 tons a year, compared with about 58 tons in 1982. "Despite the rhetorical bravado and a few highly publicized successes, the U.S. effort has been a bitter disappointment," says Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign-policy expert...
...exception to this lack of character development is Jason's wife. Eliza Gleason does change the personality of her character from a romantic youth to a somewhat independent and mature woman. Her manner becomes more forceful when she leaves Jason towards the middle of the play...
...with those of James and Eleanor, and sometimes with great dramatic effect. In one very powerful episode, the two couples' simultaneous quarrels end with both the spiritual and physical pairs yelling the same thing. Unfortunately, when the couples have concurrent dialogues, more often than not, the resulting polyphony is somewhat bewildering. Even so, it is the doubles, not the actual James and Eleanor, who figure in the play's really spinechilling exchanges...
Even though other Latin American nations are in somewhat better shape than Mexico, they contend that over the long haul the debt burden could cripple their economies, stir social unrest and conceivably bring down their shaky governments as well. Declared Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo last week: "This debt is the epicenter in the fragility of our democratic systems...