Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compiling of statistics has fallen from $1.7 billion in 1980 to $1.6 billion in 1987, even though the cost of gathering data has gone up. The Administration wants more money for the job, but as Congress struggles to shrink the budget deficit by cutting spending, the chances seem slim that something as unglamorous as statistics will survive...
Vietnamese Boat Person Vu Thanh Thuy, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "In fact, surprising as it may seem, the daily struggle of making a living in America is more difficult to cope with than all of the events we went through in prison and at sea. The reason is that there is nothing 'heroic' about surviving the never ending problems of daily life...
There is something so personal about this summit, the President explains. Systems may be brutish, bureaucrats may fail. But men can sometimes transcend all that, transcend even the forces of history that seem destined to keep them apart. The idea that he would ever go to Moscow was only a dim possibility until he met Gorbachev. Then it sprang to life in an intimate inkling...
Those shadowy units seem to be expanding their business again. Human-rights groups estimate that death-squad activity -- the kidnaping and killing by unidentified gunmen of civilians suspected of leftist sympathies -- has trebled since last year. One rights group, Tutela Legal, identified 24 undisputed death-squad killings in all of 1987; this year's toll stood at 21 by the end of April. (By comparison, Tutela counted 29 executions of civilians by the guerrillas in 1987, vs. 17 so far this year.) Most Salvadorans believe the upsurge in right-wing terrorism is the work of military men frustrated by their...
...Americans are unwilling to make the compromises necessary to attack such problems as federal deficits, trade imbalances, ineffective high schools and shoddy workmanship. Unlike many industrialists, he calls for a more activist Federal Government. "The next President must find a way to ease the polarization, because we don't seem much like a 'United' States anymore -- just a bunch of fifty states, each doing its own thing...