Word: appearantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little perspicacity, one might learn many curious things about [one's neighbors], things that made them so different from one another that [the generalized Neighbor], except as a cartoonist's transient character, could not be said to exist... No, the average vessels are not as simple as they appear: it is a conjuror's set and nobody, not even the enchanter himself, really knows what and how much they hold...
...bused to the theater for the 6:30 a.m. telecast only after special approval came from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A number of potential Palestinian panelists refused to participate. Speaking for the Palestinians, they claimed, is a role that belongs only to the P.L.O. The three representatives who did appear insisted that the wall be set up and avoided even looking at the Israelis for most of the show...
Most U.S. trading partners were relieved that the Senate did not appear to have enough votes to override a veto. In Japan, the most prominent target of the legislation, officials were delighted. Said Hajime Tamura, chief of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry: "We would like to note our appreciation that more than one-third of the Senate voted against the bill...
...both the murder of al-Wazir and the arrest of nearly 5,000 Palestinians since December. Many of the local leaders are adherents of one P.L.O. faction or another, but they evidently do not take orders from anyone outside the occupied territories. Rather, decisions made within the occupied territories appear to be approved and ratified by the Palestinian leadership in exile...
...Michael Milken was the biggest draw on Capitol Hill last week, even though he barely said a word. Eager for a rare glimpse of perhaps the most powerful financier in the U.S., a crowd began to gather at dawn outside the House hearing room where he was to appear. The spectacle, however, was short-lived. The hearing promptly adjourned after Milken, 41, refused three times to answer questions, claiming his Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination...