Word: appearantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan and other recent Western visitors to Moscow have noticed, Mikhail Gorbachev has achieved something that only three years ago would have seemed impossible. He has made the Soviet Union appear almost normal, a place with problems and foibles much like any other nation, a country that has ethnic protests, rock concerts, train wrecks, church services, strikes, scandals and beauty contests, not to mention pizza, pollution, late-night television talk shows and a First Lady. After the congenial Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the country paused for the millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Unthinkable under the old order...
...sources said that two key figures in the investigation, Victor Cohen, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for tactical systems, and James Gaines, a deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, appear on some of the videotapes. However, the sources declined to say whether alleged bribes turned up on the recordings of those two Pentagon officials...
...mannerly floor fights in Atlanta on platform items could be a good thing for the party. They would perk up interest and allow Dukakis to continue to appear as the commonsense centrist keeping the party's left wing in check. But an emotional brawl over Jackson's claims to the vice-presidential nomination would ignite racial animosities and could leave the Democrats fatally divided. In their dealings between now and Atlanta, Dukakis must rely on Jackson's enormous savvy, and on his fear of playing the spoiler in a year when the Democrats have a real chance to recapture...
...help investigators. Through advisers, they charged that local authorities with racist motives were protecting the guilty. They demanded an outside investigation. When Governor Mario Cuomo obliged, appointing Attorney General Robert Abrams as special prosecutor, the Brawleys still refused to cooperate. Last week, after Glenda Brawley defied a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in Poughkeepsie, Judge Angelo Ingrassia fined her $250 and sentenced her to 30 days for contempt. The confrontation then revved up to a higher pitch when Mrs. Brawley took refuge in a New York City church to avoid arrest...
...Roosevelt and Truman and Kennedy were no dwarfs. And only the historians will be able to judge Bush and Dukakis. The better question is: Why is it that candidates always appear...