Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than catering to the needs of individual students, Expos sections, or at least mine, seem to prefer to evaluate students according to prefabricated patterns. I went through that pattern, and I still feel that my final paper--which received a significantly higher grade that the first--is interior. As a result, I passed through the course without having any concrete idea of what good writing ought to be like...
...parents are considering this new alternative; Nova has already received numerous queries from prospective adoptive couples. With less than 5% of unwed American mothers willing to put their children up for adoption, the small number of women who cross the boundary from abortion clinic to adoption service may seem like a bonanza to childless couples...
Callahan's long-term limits -- medical, economic and social -- will seem harsh to many. He would have Congress restrict Medicare payments for such ! procedures as organ transplants, heart bypasses and kidney dialysis for the aged. States should give legal status to "living wills," allowing individuals to demand that they not be kept alive artificially. Respirators would not be used for the terminally ill. On the emotional issue of extending life by use of feeding tubes, he reasons that as external life extenders in some cases, they also should be treated as artificial intrusions. His logic moves inexorably...
...hands it to his wife. Ray takes off his arm wrap and gives it to his sister. Joe stands at the table onstage, his elbow locked in place, and waits for Ray. Ray is stalking around the far end of the stage, talking to himself. He does not seem to notice the pinup calendar photos of , the Candy Store girls on the wall in front of him. The girls are naked, in suggestive poses, and they are smiling at Ray. Suddenly, Ray barks like a rabid dog, whirls around and charges the table with wide, glassy eyes. The referee...
That is what the market seemed to have been saying for some time. The average top price for the Times industrials had risen from 186 in 1926 to 469. Just in the previous 18 months, General Motors had climbed from 73 to 140, General Electric from 129 to 396. Best of all, in the view of the investors who spent much of their spare time eyeing the tickers in the brokerage houses that were springing up around the country, stocks could be bought on margin, or credit, for as little as 10% in cash. About one-third of the nation...