Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, wrapped up in three-and-a-half centuries of tradition, times never seem to change. For just last week, Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell issued a similar report documenting that Blacks only occupy 1.8 percent of Harvard's tenured slots. Does anyone hear an echo...
...third year Harvard law student and the president of the Harvard Committee for Sports and Entertainment Law, said, "There is nothing particular about a sports arena that would give it more or less protection for speech. Unless the signs were so large as to be disruptive, then they seem clearly protected on the grounds of the First Amendment...
...this year, 4,813 mergers and acquisitions, worth $366 billion, have been launched or completed. That compares with 4,082 transactions, valued at $249 billion, during the same period last year. As daily stock-trading volumes languish at a fraction of their bull-market highs, and small investors seem a vanishing breed, mergers and acquisitions provide the only excitement around...
According to a number of Soviet POWs held in northeast Afghanistan, who spoke to TIME, conversions to Islam have seldom, if ever, been made at gunpoint. Nor do they seem to owe much to the spiritual appeal of the Muslim faith. In most cases, isolation, fear and the promise of being socially accepted by their captors have drawn the prisoners to Islam. Beg, Nazaro and other Soviet captives say they are free to make occasional accompanied visits to local bazaars and encouraged to join in volleyball games with off-duty guerrillas. "I became a Muslim once I learned the language...
...aging father and mother who seem drawn from a New Yorker cartoon are hectoring their middle-aged playwright son about the "need" for less of his satirical japery and for more plays of the kind they used to enjoy -- elegant talk, beautiful clothes, faintly risque hints of extramarital indiscretion. They want entertainment to affirm life, not scrutinize it. Having sampled truth, they prefer illusion. Atop the coffee table, looking innocuous yet posing a threat so potent that a grown daughter claims to hear it "ticking," is yet another of the son's kind of play. This one is overtly about...