Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, it wasn't easy for me to take DuPont seriously. It didn't seem that a rich heir named Pierre, with tortoise-rim glasses and preppy clothes, would ooze with compassion for the poor. After all, this was a man who, during the Republican primaries, trumpeted a public school voucher system--a way to move the most motivated students to better schools, leaving the more academically needy students behind and spurring a further decline in the quality of inner-city education...
...viewers of World Monitor, a nightly program of international news produced by the Christian Science Monitor, time does seem to be standing still. The program, which debuted last week on cable's Discovery Channel, has ) the meaty content and sober style of an earlier, less frantic TV era. Yet, to its creators, the show is not a look backward but an effort to bring a respected but somewhat stodgy news organization into the 1980s...
Bush's stance is not suprising. As Vice President, in 1985 he cast the deciding vote in favor of increasing out of pocket expenses for elderly medicare recipients. With his patrician upbringing, Bush doesn't seem to understand middle-class dilemmas such as, "Should I go to the doctor about that hacking cough, or should I buy shoes for my children...
Aggressive non-partisanship in this most political of election years is a difficult task for a school of government, but Kennedy School professors and administrators, schooled in the art of public relations, seem to be trying their hardest to dispel rumors that the Duke has his own think-tank on the Charles...
Recent statistics seem to indicate that the American public will be receptive to the project's message, Winsten reported. According to Winsten, a Gallup poll conducted for Harvard found that 78 percent of adults said they would be willing to be the designated driver from time to time...