Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cargo planes. Morning traffic is never a bother for the Bush campaign: with radios cackling about the movements of "Timberwolf," Bush's code name, the Secret Service and the state police block all intersections along the way. Although Iowans were unimpressed with the trappings of incumbency, Southerners seem to cotton to such pomp and circumstance...
...revival of manufacturing is not quite so remarkable as it may seem. U.S. industry was beleaguered in the early 1980s, but not so close to the brink of doom as many observers believed. Between 1970 and 1984, manufacturing output rose 53%, almost as strong an increase as the 62% in services. While many companies laid off factory workers, new industrial firms sprang up and others expanded, so that the total number of manufacturing jobs remained fairly constant. Meanwhile, employment in service businesses shot up 47% between 1970 and 1984, but that was partly because productivity growth was much lower...
Great ideas, even when they seem to come all at once, actually emerge from a tangled undergrowth. Siegel, a scrawny, bespectacled teenager who was then drifting through Cleveland's Glenville High School, worked as a delivery boy for $4 a week, gave part of the money to help support his impoverished family and invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign...
...latter-day comic-book Lois broke off from Superman in 1982 because their relationship, such as it was, "didn't seem to be working anymore." But they remain friends. After a recent rescue, she offered him some white wine and brie. Lois has won a Pulitzer Prize. And she is dating none other than Lex Luthor, the onetime mad scientist, now transformed into the "most powerful man in Metropolis." This is liberation...
...genes, organisms or cultures can behave differently in different environments; the term "norm of reaction" (the typical biological term) does not appear in the text. And this from an expert on plant development, where classic examples of this sort occur. His decision to attribute most quotes in endnotes seems suspicious. A honest approach would have presented anomalies and evidence first (a few psychological experiments, introduced later seem to support him), rather than trying to seduce readers into believing that the theories of science and society are straw men, fit for burning...