Word: somewhat
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...This article appeared in somewhat different form in last week's Newsweek International...
...fact in 1983, Alec Jeffreys, a geneticist at the University of Leicester in England, realized it might be the basis for an important new tool in criminal investigations. Using restriction enzymes as "scissors," he cut the DNA taken from several people into segments and arranged them into patterns that somewhat resemble the bar codes found on supermarket products. The DNA from each individual, he found, formed a unique pattern -- in effect a DNA fingerprint...
...some of Khashoggi's business interests flagged, his somewhat quixotic interest in diplomacy seemed to rise. He came up with the idea, in 1985, of bringing Palestinians and Israelis together for peace talks through a steering committee of American, Egyptian and Jordanian officials. Later he accompanied Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein when they visited the U.S. in 1985. Khashoggi proposed a $300 billion fund to develop the area, a kind of Marshall Plan that would serve as an incentive for peace negotiations. Late in 1985, using his DC-8, he visited eight heads of state...
...message of 1967, when he arrived in the well of the House with a war going sour and a Congress that had just added 50 new Republicans. "I should like to say to the members of the opposition -- whose numbers, if I am not mistaken, seem to have increased somewhat -- that the genius of the American political system has always been best expressed through creative debate that offers choices and reasonable alternatives," said Johnson. "Throughout our history, great Republicans and Democrats have seemed to understand this. So let there be light and reason in our relations...
...history, ranking behind only the $13.2 billion acquisition of Gulf Oil by Standard Oil of California in 1984. But Drexel Burnham Lambert, Icahn's investment bankers, apparently could not raise all the money needed. Some Wall Street observers speculated that Drexel Burnham's ability to finance takeovers has been somewhat hampered by the fact that it has been subpoenaed in the widening Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into illegal insider trading...