Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is another element in the Dukakis campaign, one that is politically more problematic. With Mario Cuomo on the sidelines, Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is the only claimant to give-me-your-tired-your-poor ethnicity. But this first-generation heritage can also make Dukakis seem like a political outsider, especially in the South. Introducing him at a speech in Corpus Christi, Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro said, "Governor, when I saw the two k's in your name, I can tell you we've never had a Dukakis run for anything in Texas...
...week with box-laden carts at a battery of check-out counters. A supermarket perhaps? Or a Toys "R" Us store? No, these bargain hunters were buying furniture. The boxes of all shapes and sizes contained build-it-yourself kits for assembling everything from chairs to cabinets. It may seem an odd way to furnish a house, but not to the throngs of customers who were grabbing, hauling and finally staggering out of the store...
...appears everywhere in the store, talking in cartoon balloons and giving advice about such things as the store's return policy and its delivery service. The allure of the unassembled products is that they sell for at least 30% less than finished furniture of comparable quality. Customers do not seem to mind putting their bargains together. In its first 15 months of business, the Dale City IKEA has assembled some $40 million in sales...
Even to ask whether the cold war is over is a bit like asking, "Is God dead?" Given the brutal nature of the Soviets' aggression and their willingness to impose totalitarian systems around the world, the question can seem blasphemous -- and worse, naive. The cold war, after all, describes not just the interaction between two powerful nations but a holy struggle between two starkly opposed value systems. The phrase, first used in a speech by Bernard Baruch in 1947, implies that the relationship is, in essence, a war -- not just a rivalry between great powers but a struggle that would...
Arthur Hartman, who until earlier this year was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, is particularly troubled by the unwarranted optimism he believes has erupted. "The little evidence we have is that this guy Gorbachev is a pretty orthodox fellow." Moscow's global ambitions and its "centralized authoritarian rule" seem unlikely to change, he says. "The Soviet Union is our antagonist and will be for the indefinite future...