Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though his first four seasons were dominant, the final five had to motivate his resignation somewhat. The program hit hard times, beginning with a slip to .500 in 1994-95 at 14-14-2. It has never eclipsed the .500 mark since. The five straight non-winning seasons are a first in school history...
Their first stop was in Brussels for a NATO briefing. But midway through General Wesley Clark's discussion of how a peacekeeping force could be structured, Albright got called out. Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini of Italy was phoning with the somewhat surprising news that Milosevic had decided to allow Ibrahim Rugova, the Kosovar Albanian leader, to leave the country. On Serbian TV five weeks ago, Rugova had criticized NATO's bombing, presumably speaking under duress. Albright wanted to make sure that once he arrived in Italy, he would support NATO's position. She dispatched Ambassador Christopher Hill to be there...
...raised about just what brand of medicine it is that he's out there peddling. In recent months there was vocal resistance within the public broadcasting network to showing Null's videos during pledge drives, in part because of concerns about the sensational claims he was making and the somewhat shaky science with which he backed them up. Other critics are uneasy about Null's shoot-from-the-hip style, his edgy tone and his conspicuous lack of a medical degree...
...deal that seems merely shabby, not monstrous, and not puzzling enough to require three wagonloads of explication. The author may have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...
...ultimately recommended engineering companies and headhunters for him to contact. One of these referrals resulted in a job, and a 10% salary increase. "Moving was a difficult decision," says Shillito, who won a promotion with the relocation. "Michael is cut from the traditional mold; it was somewhat hard for him to follow his wife...