Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hello Again abuses the talent of its cast with an inexcuseably trite fairy tale of a plot. Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a frumpy, suburban housewife who feels somewhat displaced in the glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...somewhat more likely to change theduration of a term of probation," Marquand said."We are less likely to [change a decision]requiring a student to withdraw because we makethat decision with such care...
Greenspan, who had been an informal economic adviser to Reagan before the President chose him to head the Federal Reserve, voiced a somewhat perverse but effective argument: in effect, the only way to keep taxes low was to agree to raise them a bit. If there was no budget compromise with Congress, he said, the financial markets might continue to weaken and the economy might take a real turn for the worse. That, he continued, might give the Democrats enough political clout to shove through a big increase severely trimming back Reagan's cherished tax cuts, either by ramming...
...long- awaited and much heralded visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to the U.S. But the Soviet leader was curiously circumspect as he posed with the Secretary of State last Friday in the ocher-colored St. Catherine Hall of the Kremlin's Great Palace. "I think this will happen," he replied, somewhat evasively, when reporters questioned him about the prospects for a summit. Asked whether he would like to see just Washington or the rest of the country, he again sounded a note of doubt. "I would like to see the country, the whole country," he answered. "Whether I am able...
...slide out of control. Secretary Weinberger, having made his point militarily, tried to turn down the rhetoric. "We do not seek any further confrontation with Iran," he said, "but we will be fully prepared to meet any escalation of military actions by Iran with stronger countermeasures." President Reagan was somewhat blunter. "We're not going to have a war with Iran," he said. "They're not that stupid...