Word: somewhat
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Congress has yet to resolve its basic standoff with the White House over how to close the budget gap without raising taxes or making major cuts in defense or social programs. After a year of Gramm-Rudman, Congress has become somewhat more frugal but mostly more inflexible. "Gramm-Rudman has helped, but it's a little like a half-successful birth-control method," mused Lynn Martin, an Illinois Republican who serves on the House Budget Committee. "It's better than nothing, but it's not as good as just saying...
...American investments in South Africa and prohibits the import of such South African commodities as steel, iron, farm products, uranium and coal -- worth a total of $713 million in 1985. It suspends South African Airways' landing privileges in the U.S. The congressional package will reinforce the effect of somewhat weaker sanctions adopted last month by the twelve members of the European Community, which do not contain any provisions affecting coal imports or airline landing rights...
Despite Winthrop's progressive policies, Galbraith said, "Our students were of questionable quality. They had a somewhat ambiguous attitude towards scholarship...
Referring to the long line of 102 Archbishops in Church history, the speaker said Harvard had been founded by churchgoers trying to escape the "harsh religious policies" enforced by early Archbishops. Therefore, though "I don't really belong here," he said, "I am somewhat connected...
...stratagems to avert the plan but fails in all of them. Improbable as this plot was, it permitted Norman to explore with sensitivity a dramatically less riveting, emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into utter implausibility. And the casting of Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, who cannot help projecting intelligence and the will to prevail, is inimical to the story's cause. Still, the painful honesty...