"The details, to the industry, are somewhat unimportant," said Julie Rochman, the spokeswoman for the American Insurance Association, "provided that the mechanism creates the ability for insurers and businesses to get their arms around the terrorist risk.
While it is certainly possible to go on at great length about the meaning of a word such as "native" and its many possibilities within the legal profession, in this case, it is somewhat unimportant.
b* = 1 = Not at all important, 2 = Unimportant, 3 = Somewhat unimportant, 4 = Neither important or unimportant, 5 = Somewhat important, 6 = Important, and 7 = Very important.
Additional items elicited subjects' sexual and urological history, i.e., importance of sex for the subject (very important, somewhat important, unimportant), ability to have erection (usually able, sometimes a problem, usually a problem) and problems with urinary leakage (never a problem, sometimes a problem, usually a problem).
Similarly, for questions which measured attitudes, various 5-point ordinal scales were used: unimportant, somewhat important, moderately important, important, very important; very unlikely, unlikely, neutral, likely, very likely; and, extremely poor, below average, average, above average, excellent.
To assess content validity of the items the patients were asked to rate the relevance or importance of each item on a scale from one to three where: 1 = irrelevant, unimportant; 2 = somewhat relevant, somewhat important; 3 = very relevant, very important.
To assess the content validity of the 40 items, a subgroup of patients (N = 26) were asked to rate the relevance or importance of each item on a scale from one to three: 1 = irrelevant, unimportant 2 = somewhat relevant, somewhat important 3 = very relevant, very important Mean relevance scores for each item were calculated.
In his June 19 review of "House of Exile," Evelyn Juers's biography of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann, John Simon describes Mann as a "not unimportant but somewhat undervalued writer".
The not unimportant but somewhat undervalued writer Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) and his second wife, Nelly Kroeger-Mann, 27 years younger and socially several rungs lower, had suspenseful lives during the great emigration — or cultural diaspora — of the Hitler years, and years of exile thereafter.
We used a rating scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being unimportant, 2 being somewhat important, 3 being very important, and 4 being critical to success.
He gets pretty runs, relatively unimportant runs.
