Word: seem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...want to seem as a group of fair-weather radicals," says Sung-Hee Suh, president of the Harvard Asian-American Law Students Association, at an activism workshop. "We felt strongly about excluding any ideological themes. Once the coalition becomes identified as only political or ideological, we're going to lost what support we have. I don't mean to offend anybody, but I don't want the coalition to be contaminated by the CLS stigma...
...responsibility of the individual governments to require the companies to warn people of the possible health hazards of smoking. That may be true, but why are we so quick to absolve these companies from any responsibility for the effects of their own products, and why do tobacco companies seem so unwilling to take...
Although the Museum of Science may seem remote from the Yard, it plays a role in several undergraduate astronomy courses...
...with a cold, Dad may fret about it at the office all day. If Mom suddenly has to work late, there may be no one to pick up Suzy and give her dinner. And if Grandma falls and breaks her hip, that budget report due tomorrow just doesn't seem so important anymore...
...Dutch greeting is regarded as the first formal recognition of American nationhood by a foreign official. But to suggest that a maritime salutation could set in motion events that altered the world would seem to require a well-stocked imagination and a keen dramatic instinct. Readers of The Guns of August (1962), The Proud Tower (1966) and A Distant Mirror (1978) have good reason to know that Barbara Tuchman possesses both in abundance. Yet she has never reduced history to simple causes and effects. Her books resemble jigsaw puzzles: start anywhere with any fragment and one can eventually assemble...