Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This attitude toward drugs indicates a dangerous trend in the way Americans view the law. People seem to believe that the laws, passed by their elected representatives, ought to be obeyed only when convenient. An atmosphere of evasion--in taxes and business regulations as well as drugs--is replacing a faith that laws are passed for a greater good than mere momentary pleasures...
...crimson-and-white Nerf football with "Harvard" written on it may not seem to be a worthwhile souvenir for four years of fandom, but buying it after my last home game gives it more significance than anything...
Before he gets there, though, the cannibal does drugs and enters analysis. Give Janowitz some credit, though. She has collected in hardcover perhaps every hackneyed cliche ever made about the idle rich. A literary phenomenon created by the same chic Manhattanites she ineptly tries to parody, Janowitz doesn't seem the least bit aware of the element of self-parody in her novel. But, then again, anyone who could agree to appear in those liquor advertisements with Arthur Schlesinger that run in The New Yorker probably wouldn...
...Polls seem to show that consumers are worried, but not enough to change their buying behavior very much. In a telephone survey of 800 adults conducted last week for E.F. Hutton by the polling firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 66% of consumers said they were "more concerned about the economy" in the wake of recent financial turbulence. But only 36% said they were more likely to hold off making major purchases. In another survey, in which the New York Times polled 1,549 adults from Oct. 29 through Nov. 3, fully 52% of those interviewed said they thought the economy...
...message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation, governed a state or even served on a city council, seem just as qualified for the presidency as those who have...