Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's newest high-tech companies, boasts a far cleaner image, but its workers face perils as well. In semiconductor plants, where a single speck of dust can destroy a computer chip, employees must don gloves, caps, gowns and shoe covers. But these chipmaking facilities, known as "clean labs," seem misnamed when workers relate the litany of health problems they encounter by being exposed to the acids, gases and solvents used in chip manufacture. California's division of labor statistics and research has found a high incidence of disabling illnesses among the state's 64,000 semiconductor workers...
Even as Coke's management eased Puttnam out, he remained unrepentant: "Do I seem to have upset a great number of powerful people? Yes. It seems that I've done one terrible thing: reinvented the use of the word...
...Cosby is not worried. "The measure of overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores," he says. "It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you." Such pronouncements may seem risky in the fickle world of show business. But Cosby hasn't been wrong...
Certainly the Pope has lost little of his personal impact. "People seem touched, enriched in some intangible way by the Pope's presence," observed Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio. One of the AIDS patients in the San Francisco congregation, Earl McLeod, thought that the gay demonstrators outside would have felt differently had they seen John Paul close up. "If they had heard what I heard," he said, "they would not be protesting...
Little basis exists for this negative stereotype, said Robert K. Weatherall, director of career services and preprofessional advising. He said a report by the the National Academy of Sciences stated, "Professors and employers alike refer to the dramtically higher communication and social skills of engineering students. They seem to have a richer education and cultural background and are more confident and assertive than engineers of the past," The Tech reported...