Word: somewhat
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...practice of screening for certain diseases and disorders in unborn children and avert them is nothing new and has always been somewhat controversial. Traditionally, PGD has been used to screen for and subsequently deal with diseases and disorders like Tay-Sachs disease and Down syndrome. Thus far, the use of PGD has even gone so far as non-medical gender selection; in a recent survey, 42 percent of 137 surveyed IVF-PGD clinics reported using the practice. But the act of changing how a child looks based on arbitrary desires represents a new quandary altogether...
...that they would omit obscene comments, which she said would lead to bias against negative responses. Annie E.P. Stone ’10 and Anna Marie Wagner ’11, two of about 40 students who applied to work for the Q Guide this summer, said it was somewhat frustrating that the administration did not notify applicants of the change sooner. However, both thought that the news was most damaging to Bridge and McNaughton, the only two students who had officially been hired. Tanton and Lloyd said they understood the administration’s desire to save money...
...Statistically, the tournament results were somewhat sporadic. After the Eagles, Dartmouth came in third, followed by Brown in fourth. Boston University was 116 strokes behind Harvard in fifth place. The average stroke gap between teams was above...
...promotions, including playing Twitter hide-and-seek with burger vouchers around Boston.Over the weekend, Olinto offered free sweet potato fries from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday at its Harvard Square location. He found the number of people who responded to the experiment—thirty—somewhat disappointing, but will continue to roll out promotions.Eric C. Chen ’11 is a b.good follower who was already a customer when he discovered the chain’s account. “I like the fact that this is a local restaurant trying to reach...
...Saturday night, Barack and Michelle Obama will share a private dinner in romantic Prague, but elsewhere in the Czech capital, the President may find the ambience somewhat more chilly. Whereas the Czech Republic might once have been the most unquestioningly loyal of Washington's post-Cold War allies, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's comment last week that President Obama's economic stimulus plan is "a road to hell" underscores the fact that Czech support for the U.S. leadership is no longer a certainty...