Word: somewhat
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BOTH the Viking and Voyager spacecraft represent solid scientific efforts. In contrast, the shuttle program is little more than an escort service for satellites. Calling it a "space program" is somewhat ludicrous. Even if the space shuttle is necessary, it should not be the focus of the United States space program...
...other national movements worldwide. Had Israel's founders believed that the new state's legitimacy rested on its higher "Jewish morals," or on some concept of perfection, they would have sealed their own destruction by implying that an imperfect Israel has no right to exist. Fortunately, they acted somewhat more carefully than Sharfstein. Israel's "Declaration of Independence" explicitly states that the creation of the new state would destroy age-old double standards by "lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations." As Normon Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine writes, "the purpose of Israel...
...rest of the cast are uniformly good, if occasionally stricken with a slight first-weekend woodenness which should disappear. Steve Peterson, measuring in at somewhere over six feet, uses his own position somewhat nearer to heaven than most to his advantage as the omniscient and condescending Mr. Jordan, but it's hard not to miss James Mason in the role. Patrick O'Kelley provides a deliciously loathsome Tony Abbott, the sleazy lover who tries to drown his millionaire boss and make off with his wife...
...original idea for the Police Squad! TV series. ZAZ wanted to make a feature film out of the idea but, as Zucker says, "we had no story." Instead, they created a half-hour television show. When the show was cancelled after only four weeks, they were dismayed but somewhat relieved...
...Soviet space station. In a tight economic environment, the cost of that project and of the Soviets' huge space effort in general may be prompting some second thoughts. Despite the successes, says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists, "the glasnost-perestroika crowd is somewhat down on aerospace...