Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taking refuge behind an analogy and a double interrogative may seem unnecessarily furtive at a time when the Sandinistas and the contras are talking earnestly of ending the bloodshed. But it is a pointed reminder that peace and the broad political consensus needed to sustain it are still no more than dreams for most Nicaraguans...
...Babies seem to be everywhere these days. Current movie fare offers Three Men and a Baby, Baby Boom and She's Having a Baby. Even television commercials are using giggling, gurgling newborns to shill for grownup products such as carpets, insurance and automobile tires. Yet despite the highly visible new crop of infants, not all Americans are sure they want to help fuel the baby mania. Observes UCLA Psychologist Jacqueline Goodchilds: "Many people are questioning the assumption that fulfillment for a woman is having children...
...tactics that in hindsight seem like blunders would have seemed like brilliance had Gore caught fire. He failed because he never developed a visceral connection with voters. On the stump, he tried to convey passion by shouting, but the volume seemed turned up in all the wrong places. Even in his commercials he had trouble conveying sincerity; focus groups rated as worst those that showed Gore speaking directly to the camera...
...taxi services to shuttle conventioneers and tourists between the city's new waterfront convention center and hotels and restaurants around the bay. In Detroit investors hope to re-establish international ferry service across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario. To such visionaries, the possibilities of doing business on water seem limitless. John Westlake, chairman of Direct Line, one of New York's privately owned ferry lines, sums up the potential in terms that appeal to everyone who has suffered through gridlock: "The harbor is like an 80-lane highway that doesn't have anybody...
...moves seem aimed at wooing white moderates to the ruling National Party, which has steadily lost voters to the ultraright Conservative Party. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu dismissed Botha's proposals as "slight adjustments to the evil system" of apartheid...