Word: seem
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Given that the underclass is over-whlemingly comprised of Blacks and Hispanics, it may at first seem suprising that Wilson opposes affirmative action. Wilson has two objections to racespecific policies. First, affirmative action programs in their different forms all tend to benefit the relatively well-off disproportianately. For inner-city Blacks without access to an appropriate job market, affirmative action is of little use. Secondly, race-specific policies are notoriously unpopular politically, especially in times when the economy suffers setbacks...
...loss at the hands and feet of Pitcher Ed Whitson in 1985, Martin was plainly on his way to Palookaville. But the beating or bouncing he took two weeks ago at a Texas topless bar came close enough to his 60th birthday, and near enough to the Copa, to seem to make a full circle. Mantle was even there a little earlier, still leering at 56. The funniest line was Martin's: "I guess I can't go anywhere anymore," as if he had been at midnight Mass. The saddest was Yankee First Baseman Don Mattingly's unintentional uppercut...
...program, sanctioned by authorities in 26 states, works like this: when shoplifters are caught, the store manager may or may not have them arrested, depending on whether they seem like professional criminals or occasional lipstick lifters. In the latter case, the store lets them go after verifying their names and addresses. In about a week the shoplifters receive letters demanding payment. If they refuse, Eckerd takes the case to small-claims court. Most have been paying...
...these breakthroughs seem to defy the stereotype of the East bloc as a technological wasteland, it may be because Communist economies are extraordinarily uneven. "There are peaks of genuine achievement and troughs of appalling backwardness," observes Julian Cooper, a lecturer in Soviet studies at England's University of Birmingham. "The Soviets are often quite good at basic research. The problem is getting that technology into production...
...they can be safely ogled and photographed in all their slithering, tongue-flicking, fang- baring, rattling, coiling, head-rearing glory. The Western diamondback, Crotalus (castanet) atrox (fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive moltings. The ceaseless, disturbed rattling of so many snakes together is like the sound of bacon frying in a hundred skillets...