Word: somewhat
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...months, that confusion has been somewhat intentional on the part of the McCain campaign. It was the issue of immigration, after all, that almost sunk McCain's candidacy back in the summer of 2007, when the Senate debated and defeated a comprehensive immigration bill that was dubbed the McCain-Kennedy bill and derided as an "amnesty bill" by opponents. After the defeat, McCain's public rhetoric on the issue changed significantly, even as his actual position only altered slightly. "I got the message," he told Republican crowds hundreds of times in the early voting states. "We will secure the borders...
...high-profile cases: voter ID, the lethal injection decision, Exxon and the child pornography ruling. By contrast, several prominent decisions this year did not go Roberts' way, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the child rape case. "If Roberts is trying to pull the court to the right, Kennedy is somewhat of a block," adds Epstein. "I think it is still not the court that Roberts or conservative Republicans want yet, and if that's the case it's because of Kennedy...
...particularly important or that have strong emotions tied to them, may be things that are going to be important in the future. If you present stimuli with a strong negative emotional component, the memories do seem to be more easily retrieved than neutral stimuli or even those that are somewhat positive, for example happy faces versus angry faces...
...Which suggests that even without the Lisbon Treaty, reports of the E.U.'s death are somewhat premature...
...game. There are animals' lives on the line. And the way the language of profits and percent shares has infiltrated how we articulate these lives is appalling. Let us all take note, too, that Eight Belles was among the pampered and well cared for; the sight of somewhat more back-alley operations might bring more than a stunned silence to a Kentucky Derby crowd. The changes in the racing world might have to be more dramatic and far-reaching than some think. Sarah Reese, HOUSTON...