Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shall stand, thank you," said Bok. "And as for what I think, I think you are somewhat lacking in severity on those who choose to stick "Kick Me" signs on the back of college presidents. You might also have something in the new policy for a Dean of Students who obeys those signs...
...past and discern troublesome aspects of the present.The three Senators seem to mourn the loss of the gentlemanly quality of the old days. They are disturbed by the all-importance of money in the political process and dismayed by the impatience of their younger colleagues. Each is proud, somewhat battered but unbowed. In their faces and in their careers is writ the recent history of the nation...
Forget the business about novellas and stories in the subtitle. Author Andre Dubus' latest collection of short fiction contains six pieces, four of them somewhat longer than the other two. It is Dubus' main title that calls for scrutiny. The Last Worthless Evening is not taken from any of the works included in the book; it alludes instead to a passage from William Faulkner's The Bear that amounts to a dirge for man's despoliation of the New World. In the past, Dubus has called his collections names such as Finding a Girl in America (1980) and The Times...
...contrast to the new capital gains provision, other parts of the tax law could help boost stock prices. It contains sections, for example, that will make mergers and acquisitions somewhat less attractive in 1987 by generally increasing the taxes that buyers of companies have to pay after the transactions. As a result, merger specialists are already reporting a flurry of activity as dealmakers try to beat the year-end deadline. "We are relaunching many merger and acquisition projects put on ice earlier," says Gordon Henderson, a partner with the Manhattan-based law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. "Many acquisitions that...
...WHOLE, the style of The Enchanter is somewhat disappointing. It has a lyrical grace, but the poetic descriptiom gets out of hand. The narrative is pumped with sweeping fetishistic passages. Told in the third person, it lacks the directness of Humbert's first-person narrative...