Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure signal of a coming collapse is supposed to be frenzied buying of stock by small investors. The little guy, or so goes the theory, always comes into the market at the worst possible time. Small investors seem to think so too: they are pouring money into mutual funds, but the majority are not doing much direct buying. Says Alfred Johnson, chief economist of the Investment Company Institute: "Small investors don't want to go head to head with the wily institutions...
...death and taxes one more of life's certainties: the Internal Revenue Service will always find fresh ways to make the former seem almost preferable to calculating the latter. Last week the IRS unveiled new filing forms made necessary by last year's tax-reform law. The estimated 13 million people who have a second mortgage, a home-equity loan or a refinanced mortgage during 1987 will need to fill out a two-page Form 8598, which comes with instructions that are twice as long as the form (estimated fill-out time, according to the IRS: 84 minutes). Some...
...August, which spells vacation in Washington. Congress is out of session; the President is at his ranch in California; the Supreme Court is in recess. The summer's heat and humidity seem to put all federal business on hold for a month...
...nation's decisionmakers should think twice before they snap up this bargain. Unfortunately, they seem to be judging its value in terms of its historical and public relations value, instead of in terms of national interest and strategic stability. To the Administration, the INF would work toward rehabilitating Reagan's image with the public and with historians, proving that his policy of negotiating from strength worked. Nor would an agreement hurt the Republican party in the upcoming presidential elections...
Everyone's raving about the limo scene in No Way Out. Every time the movie is reviewed on TV, steamed-up film critics seem to talk of nothing else...