Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detours, on the other hand, seem to exist. Last week an extradition ruling by an Irish court in the town of Portlaoise confounded the British and Irish governments, which only a month ago had agreed on procedures aimed at making it easier for Britain to bring accused I.R.A. terrorists to trial in British courts. In the Portlaoise case, the judge, claiming that Britain had failed to identify the suspect formally, refused to extradite Patrick McVeigh, who is accused of complicity in four London bombings between 1981 and 1983. Officials in Dublin promised to appeal the Portlaoise ruling. McVeigh...
Although racial and economic discrimination is hardly new, the scope of the current sentiment is alarming. Just as middle-class community groups have absorbed lessons in organizing from the civil rights movement, they seem to have turned inward. Their very sense of community, of wholeness, seems to derive from a homogeneity that can breed xenophobia. "Often communities that are the most cohesive are also hostile and fearful of outsiders," says University of Chicago Sociologist Richard Taub. "Community spirit says, 'Take care of your own.' The ethical challenge is to make people see that the world is their community...
...that time, there may not be a case to prosecute. Tawana's story has grown less and less credible over time. Medical tests taken after the alleged crimes seem to contradict her story. Percy McKinnon, one of the Rev. Al's former lieutenants, has said publicly that the case is a hoax...
...world champion Mike just can't seem to stay in the ring with the Givens-Roper tag team. Robin is making the poor boy break his traditional pre-fight vow of celibacy. And Robin's mom made him spend about 4.5 million on a new mansion in New Jersey. And they both are forcing him to put his financial records in their greedy, manipulative hands...
Arnold Schoenberg, trying to explain why George Gershwin had been a natural composer, said that a true artist is like an apple tree, and when he feels the need, he bursts into flower without ever thinking about the market price of apples. Conversely, it would seem that an apple tree is a work of art, a rhapsody in green and white. And it grows -- this is the miracle -- from a little brown seed no more than half an inch long, of which there are half a dozen inside every apple core that you throw into the garbage pail...