Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dean was somewhat disappointed that we felt that we had to sit-in to make progress," Wilkins said. "The dean will say he didn't think a sit-in was necessary, but some of the things he agreed to today he rebuffed a month ago in [another] meeting...
...teachers' unions. "You're standing in the doorways, you're blocking up the halls of education reform," he charged. Bennett assailed those who engage in what he calls "opposition by extortion, the false claim that to fix our schools will first require a fortune in new funding." Instead, Bennett somewhat vaguely recommends strengthening curriculums, rewarding good teachers and principals, and instituting "accountability" throughout the education system...
...election reforms that put its continuation in power at risk. In December, with opposition forces deeply divided, voters kept the incumbent party in office after all, electing Roh Tae Woo, 55, to a five-year term as South Korea's President. Last week the same voters, in a somewhat different mood, presented Roh with a legislature controlled by the opposition...
...persistence of the glut this spring finally prompted several non- OPEC nations to agree to a summit with OPEC. While some of the biggest producers declined to participate (among them Britain, the Soviet Union and the U.S.), the meeting was a somewhat threatening development for oil-gulping countries. That includes the U.S. as a whole, which imports 37% of its daily consumption. Energy Secretary John Herrington, on a seven-nation swing through Southeast Asia, was inspired to lecture non-OPEC countries that the Reagan Administration was opposed to any manipulation of the price of oil. He told TIME, "The efforts...
While the oil surplus is expected to endure for several years, prices are likely to increase somewhat over the next few months. Whatever OPEC resolves to do, the main impetus for rising prices is likely to be heightened demand from a growing world economy and oil-guzzling consumers. Gasoline demand in the U.S. has returned to preconservation levels, topping 7 million bbl. a day during the first quarter of this year, the highest rate since...