Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...origins of the gulf war have grown somewhat obscure over the years. Most authorities blame Iraq for staging the first direct attack, in September 1980, though many concede that Baghdad was mightily provoked by persistent Iranian efforts to stir trouble within Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim minority. After fighting more than three years to recapture its enemy-held land, Iran invaded Iraqi territory in 1984. Eventually, it squeezed off the Shatt al Arab waterway in southern Iraq, the country's only entrance to the gulf. At one point in the conflict, Iran held large areas of territory, notably in southeastern...
...agree that the volume of trade along the border has always been inversely proportional to the degree of military tension. Recently "both sides have been trying to improve conditions," says Zhao Zhonghuan, deputy chief of staff for the Heilongjiang Provincial Command. "The Soviets seem to have withdrawn their forces somewhat. They've also cut back on the amount of time that their helicopters are operating along the border. In the past, their aircraft have violated our airspace, and we've lodged formal protests, but there have been no penetrations this year." One of his Soviet counterparts, General Oleg Ilin, confirms...
Nevertheless, AIDS is primarily associated with white, middle-class homosexuals, not only because of their numbers and high casualty rate but also because they are better organized and more articulate than other afflicted groups. It is somewhat patronizing to note that from Sappho to Capote, homosexuals have enriched Western literature. Today AIDS has put gay writers in the vortex of journalism...
...political reforms Gorbachev had sought, including the creation of a stronger President (probably himself), a limit of two consecutive five-year terms for party and state officials, an invigorated system of soviets (local councils) as the basic units of local government, and a greater separation of party and state. Somewhat confusingly, the resolutions call for local party first secretaries to be nominated as chairmen of the soviets in most cases, a much debated provision that Gorbachev backed...
...Darryl Strawberry. To those without mythic insight, Strawberry is just a tall, moody rightfielder who wallops long, high-arcing home runs. To me, though, Darryl seemed like the incarnation of . . . of . . . of Nyamia Ama, the all-powerful storm god of Senegal. Nyamia Ama is said to be somewhat remote and invisible. (Well, sometimes Strawberry doesn't like interviews either...