Word: somewhat
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...bottom disappeared from beneath her feet, that she did not know how to swim. But, as she looked up to the bright glimmer of the setting sun, she continued to walk on as though her feet were buoyed up by the water.The river, it must be admitted, was somewhat shallow. Nonetheless, Frederick seemed to be managing to drown. So as the sun sparkled with full force upon the surface of the water, Roxanna dove down and her hands found Frederick of their own volition and she pulled him up. His face was even waxier and paler than it usually...
...similarly daunting financial challenges at the dawn of the Great Depression. Roosevelt, however, did not benefit from a protracted campaign in which to prepare himself. Instead, FDR found himself forced to pick staffers and cabinet members largely from his extensive network of former colleagues and associates, and did so somewhat haphazardly, under pressure from demanding tasks - such as rescuing the country from utter economic failure. Roosevelt's planning-on-the fly led to the creation of ad hoc "agencies outside the departmental framework" as former Presidential adviser Stephen Hess wrote in his book Organizing the Presidency, - a bureaucratic mess that...
California's somewhat controversial Proposition 7, which would have required state utility companies to generate 50% of their energy from renewable sources by 2025, was handily defeated with 65% of the vote. Although it seemed a promising measure in one of the nation's most environmentally progressive states, critics said that existing mandates, which require utilities to generate 20% of their power from renewable sources by 2010, are already succeeding and that the new measure would only increase electricity costs and undermine progress by hampering small alternative energy companies...
...Indiana Governor: The Future of the Party Mitch Daniels was a somewhat tragic figure as President Bush's budget director, a policy-wonk, small-government conservative who found himself carrying water for a politics-driven, big-government budget buster. His aides almost had to strap him down to get him to sign a White House-directed letter supporting the corporate-welfare farm bill of 2002. But as Indiana's governor, he's gotten to do things his own way, privatizing roads, expanding health coverage, even supporting tax increases to get his state's fiscal house in order. His tough-love...
...bubbly blondeness and uncanny similarity to the original Elle, Reese Witherspoon. Filling those knee-high patent pink leather tie-up boots is no doubt a demanding job. Arduous fans of the 2001 film will find her very obvious efforts to replicate every last one of Witherspoon’s somewhat inimitable facial expressions (largely dependent on the famous chiseled chin and popped rosy cheeks) charming and quite startlingly successful. And while Gulsvig brings nothing new to the table physically, she sings and dances and pouts and struts and costume-changes with inhumane speed, all of which combine to create...