Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then retreating and spending five days in a snow cave, was by several days the first of three climbers from her expedition to reach the top last fall. (A male climber, Geoff Tabin, made it to the top just ahead of Luce.) Thus she settled what she somewhat dismissively refers to as "the American-woman-on-Eve rest thing." (Tired of hype and of fund raising, she had put $9,000 of her own money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some of the grousing from the Old Guard of male Himalayan climbers that women aren...
...Adams, Stanford's treasurer, says, "We don't have a shop like Scott Sperling's." Adams says his university hasn't jumped on the LBO bandwagon in the same way that Harvard has--as he puts it, Stanford "has taken a somewhat different view of LBOs" than Harvard...
Things are somewhat better in Hastings' staging of When We Are Married, J.B. Priestley's satire of the Yorkshire bourgeoisie circa 1908. The premise: three long-married couples discover that their wedlock may not be legal and suddenly are able to reconsider, with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall...
This term, once again, there simply was not enough time for undergraduates to sift through the possible offerings. Although shopping period did include six class days with no major religious holidays, both students and professors seemed somewhat stymied by the timing. There were noticeable problems, as Tuesday/Thursday classes met only twice, some seminars did not meet until the day before study cards were due, and unequal demand led to the poorly-run lotteries...
...border issues, Gorbachev agreed in his Vladivostok speech to pare Soviet claims. Last April the Soviets announced a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan, scheduled to end next week. The third obstacle, Kampuchea, has proved somewhat less tractable, with the future role of pro-Vietnamese and pro-Chinese political factions inside the country still clouded in uncertainty. But progress has been sufficient to inspire a Deng-Gorbachev dialogue...