Word: somewhat
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...this, then, an equivocal triumph for Obama? I don’t think so. In the final calculation, what passed on Friday night was a somewhat reduced version of what Obama first submitted to the House. The bill that Obama will sign reflects his own policy priorities, not any significant effort to placate Republicans. Things were cut, but nothing significant was added to get it past the Senate filibuster. You can argue with Obama’s priorities, but you can’t argue that his effort at bipartisanship reshaped the final product...
...conversion percentage has been greater than or equal to that of its opponents. PENALTY KILLThe Big Red outshot the Crimson 44-24 on the night. The shot differential transpired entirely in the second and third periods, ironically the same time as when Harvard leapt ahead on the scoreboard. The somewhat oppositional statistics may be justified by the Crimson’s superb defense, which killed all seven of Cornell’s power play opportunities of the game. Anchoring Harvard’s defensive efforts was sophomore goaltender Ryan Carroll, who stopped 42 shots en route to the team?...
...Unfortunately, the holiday is one based on pressure. We feel pressure to show our loved one how much we care; we feel pressure to devise an elaborate and (we hope) somewhat original plan to showcase the depth of our feelings. Many of us, however, are single—and we feel our own kind of pressure, pressure to pair off beforehand, or at least find a date. Outwardly, the holiday appears happy, red, and dazzling, with diamonds to apologize and cards to quantify feelings. Scratch the surface, however, and it can be depressing and excluding...
...campaign, he'll invite us for a meeting," says Nonzioli. "That would be great." But at his office in Nashville, a spokeswoman for Gore said he was currently busy with stimulus-package discussions. "They want him to put aside climate change and switch to world hunger?" she asked, somewhat incredulously. Informed that the organizers hoped he would add the issue to his list of concerns, she conceded a bit. "It's quirky, but I have to admit it's a good idea...
When he's speaking from prepared text, Geithner is less than riveting. He has an odd, somewhat robot-like way of scanning the audience when he talks: look left, look center, look right, look center, etc. Sitting in the witness chair before a congressional committee, though, he is brilliant - at least when he's not having to spend all his time apologizing for screwing up his tax returns, as he did during his confirmation hearing last month. Today, before the Senate Banking Committee, he answered the questions he could easily answer with brisk clarity and deflected the ones he couldn...