Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pains to please them. Restaurants are generally laid out on two - or three levels. The street level offers the simplest food at the lowest prices, as well as poor sanitary conditions that usually include cuspidors near all tables. The second floor is slightly cleaner, has a larger menu and somewhat higher prices, though it is primarily frequented by Chinese. Most foreigners are shown to the top floor for pre-ordered meals at the highest prices and in what the Chinese consider the most attractive surroundings. That may mean a genuinely handsome setting or a seedy, badly lighted room in need...
Which is not to say that this movie isn't somewhat enlightening. I mean, what man on earth could ever guess that going on a blind date with Kim Basinger could end up ruining your life? What begins as pleasant enough evening for fast-track L.A. careerist Walter Davis (Bruce Willis), leaves him fired, arrested, injured, hung over, and with only the frame of his sporty white car to drive home...
...Grover said, the raft race will still remain the focus of the day, and according to the somewhat bizarre regulations of the race, second place will still be the winning spot...
...Humpty-Dumpty coalition back together again. Unlike his predecessor, Mao Tse-tung, Deng has never striven for absolute dominance but instead has shown himself a master at finding the center of the shifting political debate. Foreign observers expect him to remain in power, but with somewhat diminished support. "It would be hard to conceive of Deng being toppled," says Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the - University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies. Experts also agree that while the pace of Deng's reforms may be slowed, they will not be rolled back. The fall of the reform-minded Hu Yaobang...
...theater it was an effective show, calculated to convey the impression of a President physically and mentally recovered from his Iranscam doldrums and back in charge. But the substance was something else: predictable, uninformative and at times somewhat disturbing. The President said little that went beyond statements he had already issued in other forums. Again and again he repeated his standard defenses: he knew nothing about the diversion of Iranian arms-sales profits to the contras, and not much more about the millions his Government had been raising from foreign sources and private American donors for the contras...