Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 30, 1988: Having wrapped up the Ivy League title in midweek with a victory over Dartmouth, the women's lacrosse team would seem ripe for a letdown. But the Crimson manages to slip past the University of New Hampshire, 9-8, on a Karen Everling goal with 20 seconds left in the game...
...Palestinians in the occupied territories seem prepared to pay a high price to prove that they are not totally under Israeli law. As the intifadeh drags on, the Arabs are increasingly intent on proving that they would rather change their way of life than their mind...
...seem that way, but Diva Beverly Sills is the retiring type. At twelve, she was the girl on the Rinso White radio commercials. Then she retired. By 32, she had come back and was a leading singer at the New York City Opera. Then she retired. By 49, she had not only returned but was also the company's prima donna. Again she retired. Last week the brilliant coloratura soprano announced that next January she will once more retire, this time from her incarnation as director of City Opera. "So far," says Sills, "I have been lucky to know...
...Regan memoir is only the latest to bare the Administration' s inner workings. The White House cries "disloyalty," but the Reagans seem to bring it on themselves. -- Two conservative Washington insiders use leaks to tilt U. S. policy against the Soviets. -- Congress has exempted itself from a broad array of laws covering civil rights and safety requirements...
Trench warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the subject of more outside scrutiny than that of CBS, and the result has been a small library of books on the network's inner workings. Few, however, have offered harsher indictments than two new releases that try to affix blame for the turmoil and shifting priorities at TV's most...