Word: somewhat
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...wasn't specifically looking for an idea, but I was somewhat dissatisfied with the way that betting was moving to the Internet; it wasn't happening in the way that I would have expected it to happen, or that I would have hoped it was going to happen. You could basically see a lot of bookmakers moving their offerings from the High [Main] Street, and recreating exactly the same offering on the Internet. That just didn't feel right, it wasn't giving any extra value to the punter. It wasn't maximizing the value of the Internet...
...Tang’s set on the part of students— many of whom waved their arms in the air with hands in a “W” or tried crowd-surfing—actual knowledge of many of the group’s lyrics was somewhat lacking...
...Axing transfer admissions has created a surfeit of sob stories, most of which ought to be neither trivialized nor ignored. But at the end of the day, the outrage from current Harvard students has been somewhat surprising. After all, it was out of attentiveness to undergraduates’ direct personal interests that the administration made the decision to banish transfers. Just three days prior to the move, rising seniors in Winthrop House had been casually informed that, thanks to a looming Malthusian crisis, the cushy senior suites they’d be expecting would be replaced by bunk beds...
...free time’ is the most commonly reported priority in life—above family, wealth, and religion. No doubt some of the desirability of leisure time is a product of its rarity. In a nation famously obsessed with family, wealth, and religion, it is somewhat surprising to find such a broad longing for free time. But, just as at Harvard, America finds itself increasingly limited to little outbursts of enjoyment scattered throughout interminably mediocre lives...
...fractured, uneven work, with vaguely discernable intentions and vaguely decipherable clues about Gonzales himself lurking somewhere in the crystalline murk. The album, like its titular equation and like Gonzales’ work in general, is abstract and broken, to be enjoyed at a distance, where the somewhat vapid fragments take on a more beautiful, organic form.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...