Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arboretum's history is much richer than the past, somewhat troubled decade might indicate. The conservatory draws some of its reputation from being the only arboretum of its kind designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of America's first and greatest landscape architects. He also planned New York's Central Park and Boston's "Emerald Necklace"--the series of parkways lining Brookline Avenue and Route One--as well as the Charles River Basin. Because of Olmsted's reputation as a landscape architect, architecture schools from around the world send students and faculty to view the grounds and examine plants they...
Like women in non-Government social science concentrations, women in Government rarely mention explicitly gender-related apprehensions in choosing their department. However, women Government concentrators are somewhat more likely to state that gender-related problems are reasons why other undergraduates would not choose to concentrate in their department...
Harvard stepped onto the court somewhat cold, while Brown was pumped, still smarting from the Princeton match...
During lunch at the Tolna Hotel, Alexander Kuznetsov, the deputy chief of the ideology section of the Tambov Regional Communist Party Committee, assured us that "all the processes of change going on in Moscow make their way to us in Tambov, if somewhat later on." We needed to be convinced. I made clear that both of us knew enough to recognize a pokazukha, or staged event, when...
Alyeska nonetheless boasted that it would have equipment on the scene of any major spill within five hours. When the unthinkable happened, the reality was somewhat different: the first crews and equipment did not get to the spill until ten hours after the accident. And then they could do little because booms to contain the oil and mechanical skimmers to scoop it up were pitifully insufficient. Moreover, the barge capable of receiving the skimmed oil had been damaged and could not be deployed until the next...