Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council, we would probably not be enjoying extended shuttle service and longer library hours. But these endeavors have been largely the work of determined individuals. As organizational entity, the role of our student government should be more than that of a glorified lobbyist. We need to dispell the somewhat self-perpetuated belief that the council is inherently limited in its scope and influence. "The council is, at best, the institution that makes Fly-By lunches and Core reform possible," wrote one former member of the council in a letter to The Crimson. If this is the case, the cause...
...continues to maintain that he is the fiscally responsible one. I find that claim to be somewhat shallow and maybe Joe Malone was right, maybe Paul doesn't know how to handle money," Harshbarger said...
...which means that Asian-American representation in the hallways of power has gone from barely noticeable to modestly influential. Despite being the fastest-growing, best-educated and most affluent minority group in America, Asians have traditionally been somewhat diffident when it comes to politics. Nearly two-thirds of Asians in the U.S. are immigrants, many from countries with checkered democratic traditions; most push their kids to become doctors and engineers, not lawmakers. Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt. One Indian aspirant for a House seat in Indiana, R. Nag Nagarajan, lost...
Costello's rich vocal work on the album is hard to describe and perhaps even harder to appreciate. Although he has always possessed one of the great idiosyncratic voices of pop music, his range and abilities as an interpretive singer have grown exponentially on his somewhat alienating experiments of recent years. His work on the songs with Bacharach is ambitious and expressive, informed with emotional truth and an outstanding dynamic range; he soars into high notes with a rough, intense vibrato and settles into bitter moments with deliberate, raw pauses. Opting for broad, naked sentiment over sneaky sweetness, rough around...