Word: somewhat
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...somewhat dismayed, however, that Smith did not discuss the possibility of pay cuts for high-level administrators, even as other universities move in that direction. At Brown University, for instance, President Ruth Simmons is reported to have taken a pay cut of 20 percent whereas at Harvard, salaries of faculty members and high-level officials have merely been frozen. In an economic climate that threatens the livelihood of many staff members, it seems wrong not to at least consider the feasibility of lower pay for senior university officials...
...League baseball schedule is somewhat of a paradox, both generously forgiving and callously cruel...
...many cases, work fanaticism is either an avoidance or cultivation of inadequacies in other, less structured, domains. Although students’ original dedication to work was likely based on an innate love of algebra, it is possible that this interest was also motivated by a somewhat diminished temptation for the frolics of youth. A highly scientific straw poll of the first 20 people I recognized in Quincy revealed that only four felt they were popular at the age of 12 to 14; past social reclusion is not a universalistic trend, but it does seem to be prevalent...
...while until you'll be able to slobber all over your keyboard as you watch their performance on YouTube, so check out the jump to learn how in the interim, you can feel (somewhat) closer to Wallach's ruby locks and Drummey's greasy shower curtain known as hair...
...band of misfits that make up Ronnie’s security guard crew (complete with a Hispanic second in command, incompetent Asian twins, and a shy redhead) are nothing new. The choice to use Faris as the tarty cosmetics saleswoman who throws up pink vomit is also somewhat predictable, but her brand of “Scary Movie” shamelessness only adds to the two-dimensionality of the mall’s world and Ronnie’s sense of mall-cop ennui. Ronnie’s moment of self-realization—marked by his dramatic declaration that...