Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resisted pressure from Governor Madeleine Kunin, who three weeks ago urged them to step down. They have, however, disqualified themselves from many of the cases before the court this month. Retired and lower-court judges have been called on to fill out the high bench in these cases, thus somewhat disrupting courts throughout the state. Resolution of the charges against the three could take months, and will wind up in the supreme court. Then the two untainted justices will also have to step aside, leaving it to five non-supreme court judges to rule on the case. "Obviously," says former...
...horns all went up exactly at once when they smelled. Hot noon sun. Moses laughing. Cows still afraid, horns up, smelling. WE CHASE THREE LIONS through forest. One growls. They get away thru bush and olive trees. We chase for 150 yds. and they have slipped away. This is somewhat dangerous business...
...three hours over paved road to the dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...
...prelude to a more advanced system -- base their optimism on the success of last year's Delta 180 demonstration; in this experiment, a space vehicle launched on a Delta rocket tracked and targeted another rocket and then maneuvered to collide with a satellite. The demonstration, however, was somewhat rigged: the rocket orbits were preprogrammed, and a reflector on the target rocket magnified its image 1,000 times. Nevertheless, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, SDI's director, argues that the $150 million demonstration proved it is feasible for a smart rock to locate a missile shrouded in its own exhaust...
Rossignol's stock recovered somewhat last week, but prospects for the French ski team are still discouraging. "The only way for them now is up," says a Rossignol spokesman hopefully. In the world of downhill skiing, however, that is not the easiest direction to attain...