Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the stores may seem bursting with toysand treats, not every would-be Santa is havingsuccess finding the perfect gift. Charles D.MacDonald, a buyer for the Coop's stationarydepartment, spent this weekend searchingunsuccessfully for a radio-controlled toy car tobuy his grand son. "All four major toy stores inthe area were already sold out," he said...
...with a drug, Ro15-4513, that blocks ethanol's ability to activate the GABA receptor, thus sharply reducing alcohol's sedative effects in rats. Although the drug is toxic to humans, variants could one day be useful in treatment. Other scientists are studying a new class of drugs that seem to block the alcoholic's craving for a drink. These compounds boost the amount of another neurotransmitter, serotonin, in the brain, thus encouraging a sense of well-being -- and bolstering abstinence...
Increasingly, they seem to be turning to Islamic fundamentalism. More than anywhere else in the Palestinian world, Gaza is subscribing to the fanatical message of zealots like Sheik Abdul al-Aziz Odeh, allegedly the guiding light behind a local group called Islamic Jihad, and Sheik Ahmad Yasin, the spiritual leader of the Islamic movement in Gaza since 1977. "We have to start changing things by hearts," warns Yasin, 51, who has been paralyzed from the neck down since age 15. "Then by words and then the role of the hand comes." At least two of four Gazans killed...
Businessmen are frustrated by the complex regulations that seem to do nothing except complicate their sales. A study by the National Academy of Sciences estimates that U.S. restrictions on high-tech exports cost American firms more than $11 billion annually in lost business. As the U.S. works to reduce its trade deficit and recapture overseas markets, those restrictions amount to a self-imposed trade barrier the U.S. can scarcely afford. Furthermore, maintains Harvard's Lewis Branscomb, former chief scientist at IBM, the scope of restricted items, from straitjackets to wind tunnels, is unnecessarily broad. "It would be nice to ensure...
...have they had so much to complain about. A typical afternoon of kidvid these days can be a mind-numbing march of cartoon superheroes like He-Man, BraveStarr and the Defenders of the Earth. Many shows, from The Transformers to Pound Puppies, are based on hot-selling toys and seem intended to shuffle kids straight from the TV set into the toy store. Worst of all in the critics' view, under the deregulatory aegis of the Reagan Administration, the Federal Communications Commission has seemed little inclined to do anything about the situation...