Word: somewhat
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...almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down 40. It just kept dropping." Breen's account was only somewhat exaggerated: by 2:30 p.m., the Dow's plunge had passed its earlier one-day record drop of 62, set in July, and had sunk...
...aftermath of the resignation, at least one board source said, "I am uncomfortable with what happened." Wyman, said the source, "didn't mend his fences with the board. He was somewhat aloof. The board would hear about important things for the first time at meetings." But overall, in this view, Wyman's record during his tenure was "not sufficient to call for dismissal." At the same time, the change was "really foreordained," given the strong feelings that had arisen between Wyman, Paley and Tisch...
Mikulski calls herself a "definite Democrat." Her ten-year record in Congress offers a clue to that somewhat murky label: she is an activist and a populist. She supports the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action and a woman's right to an abortion. Chavez, a former Democrat who became a Reagan Republican upon accepting a White House staff appointment 17 months ago, takes the opposite stand on each of those controversial issues. Before Reagan appointed her staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 1983, Chavez worked on civil rights enforcement in the Carter Administration (she now considers Carter...
...survey conducted last week for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 75% of respondents said they believe drug use in the country as a whole is very serious. (Some 17% said it is fairly serious, 6% somewhat serious and 1% not serious.) Only 35%, however, agreed that it is very serious in their own communities. While experts think regular cocaine use leveled off about six years ago, the number of Americans who say they know someone who has tried the drug has actually grown in the past 3 1/2 years. In March 1983, 24% said someone close to them had used...
...Administration has nearly doubled its drug-enforcement budget, from $853 million in 1982 to $1.5 billion this year, but has neglected efforts to reduce the demand for drugs. The federal budget for drug treatment and prevention has actually declined, from $200 million in 1982 to $126 million this year. Somewhat belatedly Reagan seems to have realized that the flow of drugs will abate only when the U.S. curbs its persistent craving. What since 1984 had been the personal cause of First Lady Nancy Reagan -- getting young people to "Just Say No" to drugs -- finally became a top item...