Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telecommunications in search of a workable deal. But in light of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty debacle, the espionage allegations, the competitive concerns of U.S. industry and labor lobbies and the fact that an agreement would go to the Hill in an election year, the current negotiations are probably somewhat hypothetical...
...large licensing agency. Missteps abound among those who have held that simplistic view. Take Virgin Clothes: British entrepreneur Richard Branson has successfully etched his Virgin trademark onto a host of products, from CDs to cola. But his apparel line is struggling, mainly because its initial styles were pricey and somewhat conservative, which went against the trendy and value-conscious image originally established by the airline Virgin Atlantic...
...dinosaur bones have not yet been fully analyzed, but they appear to belong to early prosauropods, small herbivores that are most likely the ancestors of the giant Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus). Says Flynn of the little beasts: "I like to think of them being somewhat like kangaroos. They were similar in size, and while they didn't hop, they probably walked about on four legs and stood up on two legs to feed." Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). The rest are cynodonts, cold-blooded, reptile-like animals--the ancestors of modern mammals...
...they assert has links to the Chinese military. But Lott's warning in August that "U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage by Hutchison" and Buchanan's charge last week that the transfer compromises national security may be somewhat exaggerated. "Hutchison is one of the world's finest port management companies and few observers believe it's an arm of the Chinese military," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Besides, under the treaty with Panama, U.S. Navy ships keep their privilege of cutting to the front...
...security personnel would be no match for any serious aggressor, the 1977 treaty also allows the U.S. to intervene militarily if the security of the Canal Zone is threatened. And since Beijing's ability to project military power even as far as Taiwan and the Spratly Islands is looking somewhat questionable, Central America is probably a little out of reach. "We wouldn't have adopted the treaty if it was going to hurt national security," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And besides, there's no strategic threat to the U.S. from the south." Not counting the Chinese, of course...