Word: seem
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...were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that weight without gaining any more. But, researchers note, a sluggish metabolism does not explain all obesity. Overeating and lack of exercise also seem to play a role in getting...
...combines all of them, pursued by every government in the hemisphere and adequately funded by the only country that can afford it, the U.S. Also needed is a more vigorous program of drug education and prevention in the country with the most abusers, the U.S. Though the drug traffickers seem to have the momentum to carry on, the forces of law-and-order are making some gains. U.S. military advisers are quietly training Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian police units for such basic maneuvers as helicopter raids on processing plants. The Mexican military is waging a campaign to persuade farmers...
...during the fourth quarter of 1987, a somewhat higher figure than the previous estimate of 4.2%. Though Greenspan expects growth to slow down this year, he sees no need -- for the moment at least -- to reduce interest rates further, which might rekindle inflation. For now, price increases seem under control. The Consumer Price Index rose at a 4.2% annual rate in January, down slightly from the 4.4% pace...
...criticism bothers the judges, they don't show it. They seem to accept their role as the skunks of the Winter Olympics. They stay aloof at practices and are banned from talking to the press until after the competition. Most are former skaters and instructors who work their way up from judging regional competitions to the world championships and Olympics. They are unpaid and unloved, doing, as former Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming notes, a "thankless...
...members of his generation, who grew up not in college or at jobs but training for battle, shared a secret that "made us different from those who were older or younger than ourselves, or who were not in the war. I can't formulate the differences in terms that seem adequate to the experience, but perhaps I can recover something of the experience itself...