Word: somewhat
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...terrible film that would be! Shane O'Sullivan AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALANDI don't know whether to be upset or flattered by that question. To be honest, I have always wanted to play a vampire, with the teeth and the long black cape. Let's say that my motives were somewhat immature for doing...
...handling the war on terrorism. "Looking back," 51% say that the U. S. "should ... have stayed out" of Iraq, while only 42% think the invasion was "the right thing." Two-thirds of Americans think our "efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq" are going somewhat or very badly, and the same fraction think we should withdraw in part or completely...
McDonald's Supersize soda just got a friendlier name. Hugo is the new name for the 42-oz. (1.25 L) soft drink, which has more than 400 calories. The move is somewhat of a U-turn for the chain, which saw sales quadruple over the past four years thanks to healthy options like salads and apple dippers. Now critics say McDonald's is returning to its weighty ways. It is advertising Hugo in several languages, and critics accuse it of targeting the low-cost cup to minorities, who are disproportionately overweight...
...played a greater part in the final days of talks than even Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had. Instead, he said, both his approach to the crisis, and his wife's involvement marked "a new pragmatism in foreign affairs." Also, when asked to explain exactly why he took up the somewhat remote and curious cause of six Bulgarians, Sarkozy replied with a slightly quirky answer of his own. "They were French because they were unjustly accused, and were suffering," Sarkozy remarked - echoing previous assurances by international experts that the Benghazi infections were the result of unsanitary conditions and lax hospital procedures...
...director of research and a member of the committees that pick domestic and foreign stocks. So when analysts make a presentation, they propose a particular course of action--increasing the percentage of Wal-Mart from 2% of the portfolio to 2.2%, say. The analyst advocates, and the committee meditates--somewhat like a jury...