Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, all youth is mad about appearance. For some, it is the designer labels, for others, a flashy neoprimitivism, and of course, the punk hair and fashion styles (somewhat muted) have diffused to become fixtures of a generation whose members feel compelled to make "statements" with green hair, polo players, crystals, and motorcycle boots, even unto the "artful" ripping of jeans--a message that bespeaks both bodily obsession and an obscene consumerism...
Perhaps the source of this introspection is a retreat from the grave but somewhat intangible problems that are our main threat these days. Our enemies have no faces any more. Budget and trade deficits, atmospheric pollution, or AIDS, are all soluble, but they are complex and they grow upon us almost invisibly. Even our main human antagonists can no longer be named or placed. They are terrorists, whose actions strike us without warning...
Were a magazine to dissolve and reform each semester under a new name it would be a very lucrative, if somewhat schizophrenic magazine. I do not know how to begin to explain the absurdity of this situation. Projects in the arts should not be forced into becoming capitalistic, commercial ventures. A literary magazine should not have to look like the Square Deal...
Today a growing corps of experienced medics look upon volunteer medicine as a career. Salaries are minimal: doctors in the field are paid between $700 and $800 a month, nurses somewhat less. But most of those who go abroad feel they are more than compensated by a sense of venturesome achievement. Stephane Michon, a French nurse, contracted malaria during a tour in Thailand, but she readily said yes when M.S.F. asked her to go to Sudan to work with refugees...
...shortages seem to lend themselves to quick solutions. When sugar suddenly grew scarce 18 months ago, most consumers blamed Gorbachev's antialcoholism drive, which diverted substantial quantities of the commodity into home brewing. Authorities have somewhat relaxed their original strictures on liquor production, but sugar is still rationed in 67 of the Russian Republic's 86 administrative districts. Other goods that are frequently hard to find: good cheese, coffee, chocolate, fresh fruit and bath towels. "Fruit and vegetables have always been scarce in the Russian winter," said a gray- haired man shopping on Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt...